Hi Richard,

by any chance, missing -serial_esc on the fiasco command line?
Does ESC go into the debugger?


Adam

On Wed Apr 16, 2025 at 17:07:20 +0000, Richard Clark wrote:
> Adam,
> 
> It seems like something is not right with the connection between "cons" and 
> Qemu.
> I see cons get run, but I cannot get into it. Ctrl-E does nothing. 
> Could this be another part of the issue?
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Lackorzynski <[email protected]> 
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 4:05 PM
> To: Richard Clark <[email protected]>; 
> [email protected]
> Cc: Bud Wykoff <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Linux console?
> 
> Hi Richard,
> 
> your dts has the 'l4vmm,vcon_cap = "uart";' enabled (not commented out), thus 
> the 8250 UART emulation in uvmm looks for a "uart" capability which is not 
> there and thus disables the virtual UART. Removing that line or commenting it 
> out will make this work I believe as the standard capability will be used 
> then.
> 
> 
> Adam
> 
> On Mon Apr 14, 2025 at 11:57:32 +0000, Richard Clark wrote:
> > Adam,
> > 
> > Yes the vm-basic.cfg is where I started.
> > 
> > I am attaching a tgz file with two directories showing the two 
> > different outputs that I get when trying to run hvc0 and ttyS0. Included 
> > are the config files, the ramdisk, and the dts as well.
> > 
> > 
> > Richard
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adam Lackorzynski <[email protected]>
> > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2025 12:49 AM
> > To: Richard Clark <[email protected]>; 
> > [email protected]
> > Cc: Bud Wykoff <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: Linux console?
> > 
> > Hi Richard,
> > 
> > On Fri Apr 11, 2025 at 15:27:18 +0000, Richard Clark wrote:
> > > L4Re,
> > > 
> > > I’ve been working with the examples and tweaking them for AMD64 
> > > (QEMU), and I’ve managed to get linux up and booting, reading the 
> > > ramdisk, and even spawning a login process which kicks off /bin/sh 
> > > and displays a # prompt. And that’s great, but that’s all it does. I 
> > > can’t get any input to it. That’s using the device hvc0. Of course 
> > > uvmm complains that there is no virtual console and warns that it 
> > > might not work, so the software is at least not surprised! 😊 But 
> > > when I try to use the device ttyS0, linux stops printing even before 
> > > the login process tries to run. I don’t get any errors, but also no 
> > > output. And I can’t seem to run the IO server because then linux won’t 
> > > load at all (something about out-of-memory).
> > > 
> > > I’m sure I’m missing some little piece of magic somewhere, but I 
> > > can’t find any working examples. None of them have active logins (I 
> > > had to add my own iniittab to the ramdisk). A little help connecting 
> > > the cons service to my linux so I can get a real bash shell? Or 
> > > running IO and connecting through that?
> > 
> > Did you try to run for example the "VM-basic" entry that is there? That is 
> > supposed to be a minimal working example.
> > Please also provide the output from the system you're getting, that is 
> > helping understanding what's going on.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks, Adam
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