Lost my serial console! :-)

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> 
> On 11/20/2018 09:57, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> .....
> >> 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,
> 
> RC1 boots on both and I have a serial console on both.?

Thank you for the testing, I am ccing this reply to RE@ so they
know we have at least 1 data point that says we can boot our
release canadate image on both a RPI3B and RPI3B+,
that is valuable data.

> I'll dig through
> the .img that Crochet builds and see what I can figure out -- it must be
> doing something hinky somewhere and best guess is that it's probably the
> DOS partition that has something wrong in it.? As far as I can tell the
> 3B+ doesn't boot at all on the Crochet build (but I can't be sure since
> I have no console -- it never does enable the Ethernet port as I never
> see the link light come on) but the 3B does boot and come up -- just no
> serial.
> 
> I suspect there's a bit of pooch-hosing in the Crochet board file or
> (more likely) whatever gets into the dos partition.? If I can figure it
> out I'll submit a pull request back at the Crochet people to fix it....
> holiday might get in the way of me screwing with it for a bit here.

I wonder if it has caught up with the lua loader?

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org