Re: accessing serial console on sparc64 machines through uplcom

Paul de Weerd:

> http://www.weirdnet.nl/openbsd/serial_script/v215.txt

Puzzling.  Seeing stuff like this...

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Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.
/dev/sd0a (e580d48835930ea5.a): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0k (e580d48835930ea5.k): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd1a (b4b681cb78013c36.a): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0d (e580d48835930ea5.d): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd1d (b4b681cb78013c36.d): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0f (e580d48835930ea5.f): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0g (e580d48835930ea5.g): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0h (e580d48835930ea5.h): file system is clean; not checking
/dev/sd0j (e580d48835930ea5.j): file system is clean; not checking
Automa/dev/sd0i (e580d48835930ea5.i): file system is clean; not checking
tic boot in progress: st/dev/sd0e (e580d48835930ea5.e): file system is
clean; not checking
arting file system checks.
<----------------------------

... I wonder: Did you reboot inbetween and there was a huge loss
of output, or does it actually repeat output?  The latter would be
particularly inexplicable.

> Will this work at all with the uplcom(4) device,

It certainly should.

> or do I need a true serial port on a machine somewhere?

No.  I have used uplcom(4) and uftdi(4) serial adapters to access
serial consoles since... since well before I got rid of my alpha
and sparc64 gear.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          [email protected]