From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 03:50:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64DC116A5A7 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA7243D48 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:50:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAM3oXEX013661; Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:50:34 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 22:50:32 -0500 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Serial configs on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:50:41 -0000 At 10:12 PM -0500 11/21/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >Making this change got rid of an error message that I had been >getting about ttya at system startup, and it also lets me log in >via the serial port once the system is up. But it does not seem to >be giving me a "serial console" option, the way I have it working >on my i386 system. What tricks am I missing? I should mention that this is on an ultra-10, running 6.x-current as of sometime late Friday night. My kernel does have the DDB, KDB, and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER options added. It also turns off WITNESS, if that makes any difference. I should also mention that I do get the serial console I'm expecting if I unplug the keyboard on my Ultra-10, but on i386 I can get serial console behavior while the keyboard is still plugged in. I just have to put the right magic characters in /boot.config . That doesn't seem to work on my Ultra10. This is not a big problem for me, but I was just curious if I am missing some detail. For instance, on i386 I had to modify /boot/device.hints, but I was not sure what the appropriate change to that file would be on sparc64. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu