From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 23:00:09 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C05C1774; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) Received: from kib.kiev.ua (kib.kiev.ua [IPv6:2001:470:d5e7:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C6F52EF; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:00:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tom.home (kostik@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kib.kiev.ua (8.14.6/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r1LN01RG094179; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.7.4 kib.kiev.ua r1LN01RG094179 Received: (from kostik@localhost) by tom.home (8.14.6/8.14.6/Submit) id r1LN01LM094178; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:01 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from kostikbel@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: tom.home: kostik set sender to kostikbel@gmail.com using -f Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:01 +0200 From: Konstantin Belousov To: "Daniel O'Connor" Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Message-ID: <20130221230001.GF2598@kib.kiev.ua> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <51269ABD.2040308@gmail.com> <2AF6F8E4-A45E-4D4C-9232-FF09AD4A3641@gsoft.com.au> <5126A3A1.1030208@gmail.com> <64293C7A-038A-4EA1-B394-9E80CFCBC14F@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="11Z8SZcIENILcoZn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <64293C7A-038A-4EA1-B394-9E80CFCBC14F@gsoft.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on tom.home Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin , Navdeep Parhar X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:00:09 -0000 --11Z8SZcIENILcoZn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >=20 > On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar wrote: > >> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 > >> uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 > >> uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0 > >>=20 > >> The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that does= n't use it which is the problem. It might be not the serial port, to which the loader talks. The supermicro boards I dealt with, have a feature of VGA text mode redirection to the serial port. This is how bios redirection usually works. You could look at some bios knob which controls the point where the said redirection is stopped. It should be like 'after the OS takes the control', and not 'forever'. For BIOS, the loader is OS. --11Z8SZcIENILcoZn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iQIbBAEBAgAGBQJRJqbwAAoJEJDCuSvBvK1BmeQP8gJwC//CRBIdeFiWEP5HXAgz F2WJHWTrJr5ymb0+Y0bfPOSVzm2dzn2jxtE9JdFe8AxKzOnrIZwDq1q4S1UUaoPa B6cEXFi0qks9qNUZ8y+6alGGUVIE6AY2kmHBWF1uMDdOqfheKxrzIjLY0KlvefmQ hpASTuz02wixZ+KQ6TCgLmKBI1r4burTSUmCbKLf0qBEPJai8029QCGiUBSPSrRZ wj18CoQ9kuTl2mAR7UoJV0tDHaeE7xYQ8hzVm6gpo/PM6ZdNI/Z+6n0v0Nxat11H QYAnTxgKUPW5+w92NkrAgPObKdMs1LnIghVXu6dXoI9R4wK29vOYUn9JYRXx7km4 biO2+Vbh+RvVW+OZEEARZ2ueAqLQ/yBygblT/U/g1T3C8hlv0TLXDceNxDLuoWCP KiwG9cfU/Xnt4V0fFsSQrF7SZfKJnMp+oLlMcHpjOP5eVTaBoPYLvoZcgNNHm4De Yk5scqKjebnljGeiVDQYP2vtCiL1+wnCCAXiz32362dtbEmVr380lwmfqLJV0JFK Yo0WqBLmW0wTxxCWq/jlF2l6zsyXAXks5PKIDtUhZg0svzCUV9gCr2pUDesl7S8X 4eR5VVVPbDcOTS9Re9HolRdDdJtMaqj04caQFoXxlSrdvS2TlBeb5cTUXQu6e29U sCGLCn2n5C7LDHRmDvQ= =9S48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --11Z8SZcIENILcoZn--