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

On Jun 8, 2025, at 20:57, Warner Losh <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 8, 2025, 8:16 PM Bjoern A. Zeeb <[email protected]> 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...

When attempted in loader.efi on aarch64 I get:

OK set console="comconsole"
console comconsole is unavailable
no valid consoles!
Available consoles:
    efi
    eficom
OK set console="efi eficom"
console eficom failed to initialize
OK set console="efi,eficom"
console eficom failed to initialize
OK set console="eficom efi"
OK set console="eficom,efi"
OK set console=eficom,efi
OK set console=eficom efi
wrong number of arguments

(But this involves the possibly odd EDK2 context.)

It appears that eficom always has to be first when
both are listed in an accepted syntax.

> Also some versions seem to use space separaters while others use a
> comma...
> 
> I'd love to fix that. Do you have an example.

As near as I can from the above, both "," and " " are
allowed alternatives when qouted strings are used.


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Mark Millard
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