I am interested in using uart(4) instead of sio(4) on stable/7, to ease our eventual transition to stable/8 or CURRENT. I added device uart and changed up /boot/device.hints (there were no entries in /etc/ttys that mentioned sio), and I get something that boots and has messages on the console, up to the login prompt.
There's no login prompt, though. I can ssh to my box, echo to /dev/console appears on the console; messages on reboot appear on the console, just not the login prompt. Does anyone know what else I may be missing to use uart(4)? Also, we have some boot scripts locally that will try to set machdep.conspeed based on hardware type; uart(4) doesn't seem to expose a sysctl by that name. How does the uart driver for stable/7 deal with differing console speeds? The hints in /boot/device.hints, obtained by s/sio/uart: hint.uart.0.at="isa" hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" hint.uart.0.flags="0x90" hint.uart.0.irq="4" hint.uart.1.at="isa" hint.uart.1.port="0x2F8" hint.uart.1.irq="3" hint.uart.2.at="isa" hint.uart.2.disabled="1" hint.uart.2.port="0x3E8" hint.uart.2.irq="5" hint.uart.3.at="isa" hint.uart.3.disabled="1" hint.uart.3.port="0x2E8" hint.uart.3.irq="9" Thanks, matthew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
