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On Friday, 16 August 2024 at 12:41, Stuart Henderson
<stu.li...@spacehopper.org> wrote:
> On 2024-08-16, Laura Smith n5d9xq3ti233xiyif...@protonmail.ch wrote:
>
> > On Friday, 16 August 2024 at 09:52, Peter N. M. Hansteen pe...@bsdly.net
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 08:31:50AM +0000, Laura Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there an OpenBSD equivalent to the below flag which is set in
> > > > /boot/loader.conf.local on FreeBSD ?
> > > >
> > > > hw.uart.console="mm:0xfedc9000,rs:2"
> > >
> > > In order to get useful responses it is always a good idea to give some
> > > context on
> > > what it is you are trying to do.
> >
> > I am trying to get console output during boot.
> >
> > This is on Deciso hardware, specifically the newer models.
> >
> > On the older models, getting OpenBSD working was simple:
> > echo "stty com0 115200" >> /etc/boot.conf
> > echo "set tty com0" >> /etc/boot.conf
> >
> > But this does not work on the newer models.
> >
> > After experimenting with FreeBSD (on which OPNsense that is bundled with
> > Decisio hardware) is based, I achieved a "known-good" config of:
> >
> > echo hw.uart.console="mm:0xfedc9000,rs:2" > /boot/loader.conf.local
> >
> > Therefore all I am looking to replicate that on OpenBSD.
>
>
> No idea about the rs: and I couldn't find any FreeBSD docs about
> what that does.
Something to do with Register Shift :
https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2018/07/how-to-get-memory-mapped-serial-console.html
>
> mm: looks like an address to use for memory-mapped io.
>
> You might get somewhere with 'machine comaddr <base address>'.
>
>
> Details from 'sendbug -P' run as root might give enough information
> to figure out a bit more about what to do with the machine.
>
I'm tied up with work at the moment, but hopefully next week I'll have some
time to (try to) load OpenBSD on it and will send the sendbug output then.
