From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 14:56:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA39B106566C for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout015.mac.com (asmtpout015.mac.com [17.148.16.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA0D8FC0C for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Received: from [192.168.1.101] (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by asmtp015.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.03 (built Aug 7 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0K7300DH385ZDP60@asmtp015.mac.com> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <64026D00-137A-47AE-B03E-F6A3F3769101@mac.com> From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Julian Elischer In-reply-to: <48CA089B.6010102@elischer.org> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:56:22 -0700 References: <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> <48CA089B.6010102@elischer.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn , Peter Wemm Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:56:27 -0000 On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar >> wrote: >>> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>> >>>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0 >>>> through ttyvf. I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new >>>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always >>>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in >>>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30". >>> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console: >>> >>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >>> uart0: [FILTER] >>> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1) >>> >>> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above? >>> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial >>> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or >>> boot with -h). >> He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file. >> (change sio to uart) > > I think uart should read 'sio' entries if there is no sio in the > kernel, and it hasn't found any uart entries.. No. Hints are optional and misused as they are. We're not making things any cleaner if we make driver X look for hints for driver Y. -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com