Re: help in efiboot

[Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 01:58:50PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> And a last question: I can use any UEFI supported serial port, they
> are all called com{unit}. Bootstrap does not care if it is EISA, PCI
> or USB based. I also introduced a kconsdev command to set the console
> used by the kernel without switching bootstrap console. Here I can 
> use ucom{unit} for USB-to-serial adapter. Managing the bootstrap's 
> com{unit} to kernel's ucom{unit} mapping is left to the user.

A sample boot.cfg that I use with my not-yet-committed patches:

consdev=com4,115200
menu=NetBSD GENERIC:kconsdev ucom0,115200;boot netbsd_ucom
menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
default=1
timeout=30


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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu%netbsd.org@localhost