Re: Multiport serial card Exsys EX-44388, where are the devices ?

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:53 PM Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > Trying to get a 8-port serial PCIe card into operation (Exsys EX-44388). > After reboot, dmesg shows: > > uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 10 on acpi0 > > and /dev/ has cuau2* devices. It's unclear, which of the 8 ports

Multiport serial card Exsys EX-44388, where are the devices ?

2019-01-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! Trying to get a 8-port serial PCIe card into operation (Exsys EX-44388). After reboot, dmesg shows: uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 10 on acpi0 and /dev/ has cuau2* devices. It's unclear, which of the 8 ports is cuau2 (I'll test that later, I promise 8-), but where are the

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:11 PM Emmanuel Vadot wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:50:31 +0300 > Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > > On 18.01.2019 22:35, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > >>> errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is > not working - the code is there to be fixed. >

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:50:31 +0300 Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 22:35, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > >>> errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not > >>> working - the code is there to be fixed. > >> And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot f

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 18 Jan 2019, at 21:33, Rodney W. Grimes > > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >>> On 18 Jan 2019, at 19:57, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > >>> > >>> On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> > > Also, there are same problems with GPT/BIOS setup (which uses GPT but > > legacy boot) :-( > >

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 22:35, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not >>> working - the code is there to be fixed. >> And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition >> which has one, even if it is loaded from other partit

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 22:27, Warner Losh wrote: > > errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it > is not working - the code is there to be fixed. >  And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition > which has one, even if it is loaded from other

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 18 Jan 2019, at 21:33, Rodney W. Grimes > wrote: > >> >> >>> On 18 Jan 2019, at 19:57, Lev Serebryakov wrote: >>> >>> On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: >>> > Also, there are same problems with GPT/BIOS setup (which uses GPT but > legacy boot) :-( > What

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 18.01.2019 21:14, Toomas Soome wrote: > > > errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not > > working - the code is there to be fixed. > And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition > which has one, even if it is loaded from other partitio

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > > > On 18 Jan 2019, at 19:57, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > > > On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: > > > >>> Also, there are same problems with GPT/BIOS setup (which uses GPT but > >>> legacy boot) :-( > >>> > >> > >> What same problems? I don't think we've touched how gptboot has hand

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 11:27 AM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 21:14, Toomas Soome wrote: > > > errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not > working - the code is there to be fixed. > And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition > w

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 21:14, Toomas Soome wrote: > errm.. you press a key and enter device and or loader path. if it is not > working - the code is there to be fixed. And loader looks to "bootme" attribute and try to boot from partition which has one, even if it is loaded from other partition itself. >

Re: GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Toomas Soome
> On 18 Jan 2019, at 19:57, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: > >>> Also, there are same problems with GPT/BIOS setup (which uses GPT but >>> legacy boot) :-( >>> >> >> What same problems? I don't think we've touched how gptboot has handed off >> to /boot/lo

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: > If your BIOS allows it, you can set the standard ConOut variables the UEFI > standard defines with the efivar program. In addition, you can add args to > the 'binary blob' part of the BOOT OPTIONS variables (Boot), though > efibootmgr doesn't currently

GPT boot has less features than legacy MBR-based one (Was: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config)

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 20:13, Warner Losh wrote: >> Also, there are same problems with GPT/BIOS setup (which uses GPT but >> legacy boot) :-( >> > > What same problems? I don't think we've touched how gptboot has handed off > to /boot/loader in a long, long time. It there's an issue here, it's a > differ

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:55 AM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 17:10, Kyle Evans wrote: > > > There's some UEFI var that's supposed to serve the same kind of > > purpose as /boot.config -- early boot parameters. I think we had > > discussed implementing this at some point, but this hasn't

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:27 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto > the > > > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 17:10, Kyle Evans wrote: > There's some UEFI var that's supposed to serve the same kind of > purpose as /boot.config -- early boot parameters. I think we had > discussed implementing this at some point, but this hasn't been done > yet as far as I've seen. Would this be usable on your

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger > > Hi! > > > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, > > and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf > > > > Which chan

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 12:49 AM Kurt Jaeger Hi! > > > With a recent change I made for UEFI, we now install loader.efi onto the > ESP and don???t run boot1. That means that /boot.config is no longer read, > and so console settings need to be put in /boot/loader.conf > > Which change is that ? > Mov

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 17:03, Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be > read and so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, > or if loader.conf can be considered the correct place and > boot.config forgotten about? >

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Toomas Soome
The loader.efi (EFI application) can receive command line arguments, set up in UEFI boot manager. rgds, toomas > On 18 Jan 2019, at 16:14, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Hello, > >> I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so >> code should be added to loader to cont

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hello, > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so > code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if loader.conf can > be considered the correct place and boot.config forgotten about? If the early boot messages are not displayed as Olivier mentione

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Kyle Evans
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:04 AM Olivier Cochard-Labbé wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and > > so code should be added to loader to cont

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Olivier Cochard-Labbé
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 2:10 PM Lev Serebryakov wrote: > On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > > > > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and > so code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if > loader.conf can be considered the correct place and

Re: UEFI, loader.efi and /boot.config

2019-01-18 Thread Lev Serebryakov
On 18.01.2019 5:31, Rebecca Cran wrote: > I was wondering if people will expect /boot.config to still be read and so > code should be added to loader to continue to parse it, or if loader.conf can > be considered the correct place and boot.config forgotten about? Please, not, please support /b