Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart)

On Sep 11, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> Peter Wemm wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> On Sep 11, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>>
>>>> After I boot up, the only /dev/tty* devices I have are ttyv0
>>>> through ttyvf.  I've installed the new /etc/ttys and a new
>>>> /boot/device.hints, though frankly device.hints has always
>>>> been a magic-box to me, so I just blindly copied what was in
>>>> GENERIC.hints and changed hint.uart.0.flags to be "0x30".
>>> uart(4) does tell you when it's the console:
>>>
>>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
>>> uart0: [FILTER]
>>> uart0: console (115200,n,8,1)
>>>
>>> The first question is: do you see a line like the one above?
>>> If not (most likely), try to boot explicitly with a serial
>>> console (i.e. set boot_serial=yes at the loader prompt or
>>> boot with -h).
>> He probably also needs to update his /boot/device.hints file.
>> (change sio to uart)
>
> I think uart should read  'sio' entries if there is no sio in the  
> kernel, and it hasn't found any uart entries..

No. Hints are optional and misused as they are. We're
not making things any cleaner if we make driver X look
for hints for driver Y.

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt_at_mac.com