Re: Loading splash ok -> <reset>, how to debug?

On Sun, 8 Jun 2025, Warner Losh wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 8:16 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2025, Mark Millard wrote:
>>
>>> Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists_at_lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote on
>>> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 01:29:50 UTC :
>>>
>>>> . . .
>>>>
>>>> I turned beastie back on and by default it thinks it's booting using
>>>> video; when I toggle through to serial it seems to boot; now that
>>>> might be the accidental "working now".
>>>>
>>>> Where does that menu get it's values from compared to the console
>>>> variable?
>>>>
>>>> Not toggling the menu I see:
>>>> console=efi,comconsole
>>>
>>> Despite the lack of updated to the various man loader* pages,
>>> comconsole was removed/replaced with eficom in (2023):
>>
>> Oh that's funny...
>>
>> I have a feeling a few setenv calls in that code need to become
>> conditionals...  or there is a mapping somewhere ...  otherwise
>> comconsole makes little sense...
>>
>
> Comconsole today is just an alias on aarch64...
>
> Also some versions seem to use space separaters while others use a
>> comma...
>>
>
> I'd love to fix that. Do you have an example.

# grep -r 'setenv(' stand/ | egrep -E '(efi |console )'
stand/efi/loader/main.c:                                setenv("console", "efi comconsole", 1);
stand/efi/loader/main.c:                                setenv("console", "comconsole efi", 1);
stand/i386/loader/main.c:                       setenv("console", "comconsole vidconsole", 1);
stand/i386/loader/main.c:                       setenv("console", "vidconsole comconsole", 1);


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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                                     r15:7