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Date:      Mon, 3 Mar 2014 13:05:25 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        mexas@bris.ac.uk
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ia64 r260914 GENERIC kernel: /usr/src/sys/dev/vt/vt_core.c:261: undefined reference to kbd_get_keyboard and so on
Message-ID:  <201403031305.25478.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201403021556.s22FuWpQ070040@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
References:  <201403021556.s22FuWpQ070040@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>

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On Sunday, March 02, 2014 10:56:34 am Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >From jhb@freebsd.org Fri Feb 28 20:57:59 2014
> >
> >On Friday, February 28, 2014 9:23:28 am Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >> ia64 r260914 GENERIC kernel contains:
> >> 
> >> device          kbdmux          # keyboard multiplexer
> >> device          vt              # Virtual terminals
> >> device          vt_vga          # VGA terminal device
> >> 
> >> Trying to build it, I get:
> >
> >Try this:
> >
> >Index: conf/files.ia64
> >===================================================================
> >--- conf/files.ia64     (revision 262614)
> >+++ conf/files.ia64     (working copy)
> >@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
> > dev/fb/vga.c                   optional        vga
> > dev/hwpmc/hwpmc_ia64.c         optional        hwpmc
> > dev/io/iodev.c                 optional        io
> >-dev/kbd/kbd.c                  optional        atkbd | sc | ukbd
> >+dev/kbd/kbd.c                  optional        atkbd | sc | ukbd | vt
> > dev/syscons/scterm-teken.c     optional        sc
> > dev/syscons/scvgarndr.c                optional        sc vga
> > dev/syscons/scvtb.c            optional        sc
> >
> 
> yes, I can build and install kernel with patch.
> On reboot, the booting information is no longer
> shown on serial console, just:
> 
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...               
> Entering /boot/kernel/kernel at 0x9ffc000000010500...
> 
> FreeBSD/ia64 (mech-as221.men.bris.ac.uk) (ttyu1)
> 
> login: 
> 
> This is probably the default vt behaviour?
> I need to be able to see thing progressing
> in the serial console. How can I do this?
> Or do I need to disable vt for this?

This sounds normal for the console being on the VGA console and not serial.  
I've no idea how close ia64's boot loader is to x86's in that regard.  Marcel 
is probably the right person to ask.

> Anyway, I can find neither vt nor vt_vga
> man pages on r260914 system. Is this expected?

Yes, there are no manpages for that yet.

-- 
John Baldwin



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