Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-26 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, April 25, 2011 5:38:30 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > I don't think so. You can try swapping the hints for sio0 and sio1 and > > seeing if > > sio1 suddenly shows up as working and valid. If so, then the changes in 8 > > to bind > > unit numbers using hints might work for you to g

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-25 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> I don't think so. You can try swapping the hints for sio0 and sio1 and > seeing if > sio1 suddenly shows up as working and valid. If so, then the changes in 8 to > bind > unit numbers using hints might work for you to get COM1 back as sio0. Few days ago I decided to upgrade to 8.2-STABLE, pa

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:05:34 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > The _STA method is used to query a device's status, and a status of 0 means > > that the device is disabled. I believe that this means that when you have > > SOL enabled (SOLE?) that COM1 is marked inactive so the OS ignores the

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-19 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> The _STA method is used to query a device's status, and a status of 0 means > that the device is disabled. I believe that this means that when you have > SOL enabled (SOLE?) that COM1 is marked inactive so the OS ignores the device. Good catch, thanks! I had a feeling, that it must be caused by

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-18 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday, April 18, 2011 1:22:59 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > 1) Add a printf to sioprobe() in sys/dev/sio/sio.c to output an error > > message > > when it fails to allocate a SYS_RES_IOPORT device at the very beginning. > > Done. I'll need to wait until next reboot - it's a production box,

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-18 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> 1) Add a printf to sioprobe() in sys/dev/sio/sio.c to output an error message > when it fails to allocate a SYS_RES_IOPORT device at the very beginning. Done. I'll need to wait until next reboot - it's a production box, so it has to be done in night hours. > 2) Capture 'acpidump -d' output and

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-18 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, April 16, 2011 7:13:16 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > Hmm, I don't see it even trying to probe the COM1 device. I'll have to wait > > until you get a verbose dmesg to investigate further I'm afraid. :( > > I've got verbose dmesg now: http://www.frasunek.com/tmp/dmesg-verb.txt Hum

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-16 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> Hmm, I don't see it even trying to probe the COM1 device. I'll have to wait > until you get a verbose dmesg to investigate further I'm afraid. :( I've got verbose dmesg now: http://www.frasunek.com/tmp/dmesg-verb.txt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mai

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, April 15, 2011 3:04:49 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > Hmm, that unknown device is your COM1. Do you have a copy of your current > > dmesg available? I'm curious if sio0 failed to probe the UAR1 device and > > then > > later attached to UAR2. > > Sure, this is my non-verbose dmes

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> Hmm, that unknown device is your COM1. Do you have a copy of your current > dmesg available? I'm curious if sio0 failed to probe the UAR1 device and > then > later attached to UAR2. Sure, this is my non-verbose dmesg: http://www.frasunek.com/tmp/dmesg.txt It's from 7.3-RELEASE, but on 7.4

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, April 15, 2011 2:31:20 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > > Hmm, can you post the output of 'devinfo -vr' and a verbose dmesg at a URL? > > Devinfo output is here: http://www.frasunek.com/tmp/devinfo.txt > > I'll post verbose dmesg after next reboot, which is already scheduled on sunday

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
> Hmm, can you post the output of 'devinfo -vr' and a verbose dmesg at a URL? Devinfo output is here: http://www.frasunek.com/tmp/devinfo.txt I'll post verbose dmesg after next reboot, which is already scheduled on sunday morning. -- * Fido: 2:480/124 ** WWW: http://www.frasunek.com ** NICHDL:

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, April 15, 2011 1:03:03 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > >> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on > >> acpi0 > >> sio0: type 16550A, console > >> sio0: [FILTER] > > Do you have any hints for sio* in /boot/device.hints? > > My /boot/device.hints are unmodi

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
>> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 flags 0x10 on >> acpi0 >> sio0: type 16550A, console >> sio0: [FILTER] > Do you have any hints for sio* in /boot/device.hints? My /boot/device.hints are unmodified: [root@kalina-gw ~]# grep sio /boot/device.hints hint.sio.0.at="isa" hin

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 7:08:22 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:13:06PM +0200, Pawel Tyll wrote: > > >> P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? > > > Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's > > > piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of m

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-15 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011 3:35:11 pm Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm struggling with enabling serial console on Intel SR1630GP server > platform and FreeBSD 7.4. > > In default configuration, my serial ports are detected correctly: > > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:13:06PM +0200, Pawel Tyll wrote: > >> P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? > > Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's > > piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards. > > Usually includes IPMI support. Depending on the mot

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Pawel Tyll
Hi, >> P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? > Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's > piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards. > Usually includes IPMI support. Depending on the motherboard, it may > even include support for keyboard/video/mous

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > P.S. -- What's "BMC" stand for? Baseband Management Controller. It's the separate NIC (sometimes it's piggy-backed on a NIC) used for remote management of motherboards. Usually includes IPMI support. Depending on the motherboard, it may

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:35:11PM +0200, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: > Hello, > > I'm struggling with enabling serial console on Intel SR1630GP server > platform and FreeBSD 7.4. > > In default configuration, my serial ports are detected correctly: > > sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3

Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Przemyslaw Frasunek
Hello, I'm struggling with enabling serial console on Intel SR1630GP server platform and FreeBSD 7.4. In default configuration, my serial ports are detected correctly: sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: [FILTER] sio1: <16550A-com