Lost my serial console! :-)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 11/20/2018 09:39, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ]
> >> On 11/19/2018 22:04, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>>> I built a 12-Stable pull for the Pi3 using Crochet this afternoon and it
> >>>> appeared to hang on boot (never started the kernel.)? In fact it did --
> >>>> but the com console has disappeared so as soon as the kernel was loaded
> >>>> I lost all output to the serial port.
> >>>>
> >>>> It's running; if I connect an ethernet cable and there's a DHCP server
> >>>> out there it will get an address and I can then connect and log into it.
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried setting it in the environment in uboot (and doing a "saveenv"),
> >>>> but that didn't work, nor did setting console="comconsole" in
> >>>> /boot/loader.conf.
> >>>>
> >>>> This used to come up by default but no longer does.... I'm obviously
> >>>> missing something stupid and would certainly like to fix it. :-)
> >>> You might check what all the various files on the 12.0-RC1 RPI3
> >>> image has, I just tested it and both the serial console and HDMI
> >>> video w/USB keyboard works.
> >>>
> >>> Crochet may of not caught up with some thing.
> >> I'll look into that; it's possible although there are no recent commits
> >> related to this (the latest was a size change for the Pine)... the other
> >> thing is a PI3B+ does not appear to boot at all but I need to grab the
> >> base image to see why since I have no serial console on the one I
> >> built.? Is this known (since that's the current hardware rev)?
> > I can not speak to the PI3B+ at all, I only have a PI3B,
> > I seem to recall someone having a issue on the PI3B+ though.
> > What hardware do you actually have?
> Lots.? I have several 3Bs, one 3B+ (since that's the current model), and
> a passel of 2s. :-)? The 2s are fine but I'm building 11.STABLE for
> those.? Can't for the 3s, as the code to run those isn't in 11.

Ok which of PI3B or PI3B+ or is it both that you are having
serial console issues on?

Also can you try:
	http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-RC1-arm64-aarch64-RPI3.img.xz
on both boards and report success/failure/problems?

Thanks,
-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org