[coreboot] SeaBIOS, serial output, and grub

Ward Vandewege ward at gnu.org
Wed May 13 22:29:27 CEST 2009


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 10:46:11AM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:04:07PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 08:16:47PM -0400, Ward Vandewege wrote:
> > > I'm seeing the exact same issue on m57sli (which is also mcp55 based,
> > > however). Has anyone else tried coreboot + SeaBIOS + grub with serial?
> > 
> > This looks to be an issue with SeaBIOS serial port detection.  Can you
> > retry with the latest seabios git?  Make sure CONFIG_SERIAL is enabled
> > in SeaBIOS as grub relies on the serial ports being detected by the
> > bios.
> 
> That was with seabios as of Monday 2009-05-11.
> 
> But - I just tried on both h8dme and m57sli with Seabios head as of today,
> and the bug appears to be gone! Did you change something?

OK, more information on this.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL is set to 0, the bug is gone (i.e. grub serial works
as expected), but sgabios does not work. Boot log:

  http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090513-seabios-no-serial-debug.cap

If CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL is set to 1, the bug persists, but sgabios works.
Boot log:

  http://ward.vandewege.net/coreboot/seabios/20090513-seabios-serial-debug-grub-serial-slowness.cap
  
Thoughts?

Thanks,
Ward.

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Ward Vandewege <ward at fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator




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