Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:52:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> Cc: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>, Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <200007102252.PAA07378@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Jul 2000 15:31:36 PDT." <200007102231.PAA16902@whistle.com>
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> Paul Saab writes:
> | set console="comconsole" is what you want in /boot/loader.rc
>
> Yep, except that it doesn't initialize the com port, it just starts
> using it so you end up with junk out the port. However, if you have a
> BIOS that setups the baud rate etc. of the serial port then you would
> be okay. Current FreeBSD does this in the boot blocks and not the loader.
Are you sure about this?
sys/boot/common/console.c:cons_probe()
...
consoles[active]->c_init(0);
...
sys/boot/i386/libi386/comconsole.c:
static int comc_started;
...
static int
comc_init(int arg)
{
if (comc_started && arg == 0)
return 0;
comc_started = 1;
outb(COMPORT + com_cfcr, CFCR_DLAB | COMC_FMT);
outb(COMPORT + com_dlbl, COMC_BPS(COMSPEED) & 0xff);
outb(COMPORT + com_dlbh, COMC_BPS(COMSPEED) >> 8);
outb(COMPORT + com_cfcr, COMC_FMT);
outb(COMPORT + com_mcr, MCR_RTS | MCR_DTR);
do
inb(COMPORT + com_data);
while (inb(COMPORT + com_lsr) & LSR_RXRDY);
return(0);
}
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