Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:49:48 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD i386 guest doesn't see console... Message-ID: <20141203174947.GG99957@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <547E8319.9070509@freebsd.org> References: <20141203024112.GF99957@funkthat.com> <547E8319.9070509@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan wrote this message on Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 19:27 -0800:
> >This is w/ a resonably recent current i386 kernel (r275062)
>
> I verified the r274463 i386 snapshot boots fine. That's not quite as
> recent, but:
>
> >... Any suggestions?
>
> >uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
> ...
> >uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
> >uart0: console (9600,n,8,1)
>
> The "flags 0x10" text isn't being displayed in the i386 dmesg. This is
> derived from /boot/device.hints i.e.
>
> ...
> hint.uart.0.flags=0x10
> ...
>
> You can see this from bhyveload by issuing a 'show' command to dump
> all the environment, including what was read in from device.hints by the
> loader, or "more /boot/device.hints".
So, checking /boot/device.hints shows:
hint.uart.0.at="isa"
hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8"
hint.uart.0.flags="0x10"
hint.uart.0.irq="4"
hint.uart.1.at="isa"
hint.uart.1.port="0x2F8"
hint.uart.1.irq="3"
> It may be possible that this file isn't being populated in your image,
> or being read in by bhyveload.
show from loader:
OK show
LINES=24
boot_serial=1
console=userboot
currdev=disk0p3:
interpret=OK
kernelname=/boot/kernel/kernel
loaddev=disk0p3:
prompt=${interpret}
smbios.bios.vendor=BHYVE
Any ideas?
Oh, I did verify that uart0 is functional by logging into the system
and doing: echo foobar > /dev/cuau0
So, it's not like the console is not working, it's clearly a problem w/
the kernel deciding to use it as console..
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