In message <[email protected]>,
Michael Sperber ([email protected]) wrote:
>
> Robert Watson <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > FWIW, the main problem I ran into with my 8.0 upgrade is that 8.0 uses
> > the uart(4) driver for serial ports, and sio(4), 7.2's default, has
> > been removed. They require mutually exclusive lines in device.hints
> > and different /etc/ttys lines. If you rely on a serial console, I
> > would recommend first switching 7.2 to using uart, pausing for a bit,
> > and then switching forward to 8 so that you separate the risks
> > associated with changing console drivers from those associated with
> > sliding a major kernel version.
>
> Could you briefly elaborate on how that's done with 7.x? I.e. is
> changing device.hints and /etc/ttys enough (what changes?), or do I need
> to recompile the kernel? (I'm a bit confused because both uart and sio
> seem to be in GENERIC, but I haven't been able to active uart through
> device.hints. I couldn't find anything on freebsd.org or the internets,
> either.) A few hints would be much appreciated!
Robert's comment prompted me to try this on my home server which runs
7-STABLE, but which I will probably upgrade to 8-STABLE in a few months
time. What I did was:
1. Replace 'device sio' with 'device uart' in the kernel configuration
file.
2. In /etc/ttys change all ttydX to ttyuX, where X was 0 to 3 in my
case.
3. In /boot/device.hints change all hint.sio.X.Y to hint.uart.X.Y
I then rebooted with my fingers crossed since said machine is headless.
I need not have worried since it worked first time.
If anyone thinks I forgot something please _do_ speak up.
HTH
Cheers,
Nick.
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