Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 00:22:14 -0600 From: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> To: re@freebsd.org Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Blade 100 w/ 5.4-PRERELEASE console Message-ID: <20050312062214.GH10159@hex.databits.net>
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Hello,
David O'Brien asked me to email you about this issue. I have a
Sun Blade 100 running FreeBSD since 5.0. Recently, it appears
that a change was made to uart(4) which causes the console to
break. With older RELENG_5 kernels (specifically, mine from
November 2004 and the Feb_2005 SNAP001 version), the kernel sends
messages to ttya (serial console). However, with the recent
versions, you have to set {output,input}-device to "ttya" in the
OpenBoot PROM, to get the kernel messages. I believe the system
will still boot. But apparently with Solaris (and older FreeBSD)
the kernel sent messages to the serial console without needing to
mess with the OBP variables. I believe this is needless pain for
users trying to install FreeBSD on their Blade 100s (and possibly
other models).
This issue was also encountered with the 6.0 Feb_2005 snapshot.
Thanks for listening.
Regards,
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wca
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