Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-25 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:09:33PM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > How come freebsd dynamically detects the correct irq, but openbsd has it > > hardcoded? > > linux and freebsd kernels use acpi to configure isa serial ports, openbsd > uses static allocations. Ah, ok; now that I know what's g

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-11-24, Paul B. Henson wrote: > erase ^?, werase 1234567890123456 16 chars, because of the 16 byte buffer in the uart. > com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8/8 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo ^^ when enough chars have been sent to fill the buffer, we wait f

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-25 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013-11-24, Paul B. Henson wrote: > Back on topic to my actual problem, it looks like the IPMI SOL com2 is > actually using IRQ 10 rather than 5, which both linux and freebsd detect: > > [2.324044] 00:0e: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 10) is a 16550A > uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3.8-0

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 04:10:23PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > > I suppose the installer kernel could be fixed the same way, but at least > for this initial install it's not worth it, I'll just install with the > kvm head, fix the installed kernel, and then go serial from there. Actually, it t

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:16:52AM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8/8 irq 5: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > com2: console > [...] > root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b > erase ^?, werase > > Every time, it wedges up at this spot. The console still works for > kernel messages th

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On 11/24/2013 2:00 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: Well, I can't say it's the greatest implementation ever, but arguably it doesn't seem much worse than on my Sun or IBM servers. [...] You just cannot compare this to what Sun did, by (almost always) using a seperate ethernet port. Probably still crap

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Theo de Raadt
> > Supermicro IPMI is crap. Use normal serial console and add a power strip > > which you can manage via ethernet to poweroff/power cycle the server. > > Well, I can't say it's the greatest implementation ever, but arguably it > doesn't seem much worse than on my Sun or IBM servers. http://news.

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Jiri B wrote: > Supermicro IPMI is crap. Use normal serial console and add a power strip > which you can manage via ethernet to poweroff/power cycle the server. Well, I can't say it's the greatest implementation ever, but arguably it doesn't seem much wor

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Jiri B
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:40:31PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 09:54:41AM +0100, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > > > in the bios, you can set the onboard serial ports irq to some higher value. > > that way, the ipmi console will become com0. > > > > (not tried on that board,

Re: IPMI SOL serial console wedges

2013-11-24 Thread Paul B. Henson
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 09:54:41AM +0100, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > in the bios, you can set the onboard serial ports irq to some higher value. > that way, the ipmi console will become com0. > > (not tried on that board, only on newer supermicros that dont have the > serial port on the outside an