IPMI serial console

[Navdeep Parhar]

On 02/21/13 14:15, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 02:07:57PM -0800, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
>> On 02/21/13 13:56, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>>
>>> On 22/02/2013, at 2:19, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone have any hints?
>>>>
>>>> Rather than using all these hints, just use these three in loader.conf:
>>>>
>>>> console="comconsole vidconsole"
>>>> console_speed=115200
>>>> console_port="0x<blah>"  (where <blah> is the correct I/O port for COM3, 0x3e8 
>>>> maybe?)
>>>
>>>
>>> No dice :(
>>>
>>> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.
>>
>> What does "dmesg | grep uart" show?  I have a PCI serial card whose
>> serial port I'm using as a console.  I had to setup comconsole_pcidev,
>> comconsole_port, and comconsole_speed properly in loader.conf to get it
>> to work.
> 
> Do you need the comconsole_port if comconsole_pcidev is set properly ?
> comconsole_port should be set automatically (i.e., read from the BAR)
> if _pcidev is correct.
> 

I just tried it -- it works without the comconsole_port.  So yes, it's
reading the port value automatically. (I see it in kenv and of course I
can see that my console is working).