On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 10:03, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:03:24PM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Nothing to do with NetBSD. Get into the UEFI menu and navigate to the > > console options. > > But that is also the downside: if the firmware does not offer serial console, > the bootblocks can not provide it either. This is a severe regression from > biosboot, but it seems tricky to fix.
Yes, but in practice on systems which have serial interfaces and on which it makes sense the console to be on a serial port, the UEFI would offer the option; it surely doesn't offer it on my laptop as it is pointless - there is no serial port. Fixing this would allow for, say, repurposing old UEFI laptops with serial ports to be used as servers; I have one of these with damaged screen and partially non-functional AMG FirePro graphics card which run -current and is used for regular system builds, pkgsrc and qemu-nvmm; I'd be happy to remove the graphics completely and use the serial port as a console, but it is a limited use case. > > Martin Chavdar -- ----
