Re: Grub2 UEFI boot and serial console output

[Matwey V. Kornilov]

2017-01-13 16:44 GMT+03:00 Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>:
> 13.01.2017 12:03, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:
>> 2017-01-11 20:16 GMT+03:00 Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>:
>>> 11.01.2017 19:55, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:
>>>> 2017-01-11 19:45 GMT+03:00 Andrei Borzenkov <address@hidden>:
>>>>> 11.01.2017 16:27, Matwey V. Kornilov пишет:
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the proper way to output GRUB2 menu to serial rs232 console when
>>>>>> UEFI boot is used? I've copy-pasted GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --unit=0
>>>>>> --speed=115200" from Google because I didn't find anything else. It
>>>>>> doesn't work.
>>>>>> Now, reading grub sources, I see that the proper way should probably be
>>>>>> something like GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial efi0".
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This is platform dependent. --unit=0 refers to COM1 on PC BIOS platform.
>>>>> On EFI grub is using EFI Serial I/O Protocol and enumerates all handles
>>>>> with this protocol using efiXX names. Then there is USB serial driver,
>>>>> ARC and IEEE1275 where names are provided by firmware etc.
>>>>
>>>> I just can't understand, term/serial.c: grub_cmd_serial() sets name to
>>>> "com%ld" using --unit=value on any platform.
>>>>
>>>>   if (state[OPTION_UNIT].set)
>>>>     {
>>>>       grub_snprintf (pname, sizeof (pname), "com%ld",
>>>>                      grub_strtoul (state[0].arg, 0, 0));
>>>>       name = pname;
>>>>    }
>>>>
>>>> Then this "com0" is put to grub_serial_find(name) call. The question
>>>> is how this is going to match with "efi0"?
>>>
>>> It is not.
>>>
>>>> Please correct me, if I am wrong.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Again - "--unit=0" is simply alias for "com0". Whether device with name
>>> "com0" actually exists depends on platform and loaded drivers.
>>>
>>> This alias makes no sense on platform that does not include ns8250
>>> driver that provides access to device with name "com0". You can check
>>> grub-core/Makefile.core.def which platforms include this driver.
>>>
>>> So on EFI you are not going to use --unit=0 (or you need to add some
>>> platform-dependent magic to translate --unit=0 into platform device).
>>>
>>> And yes, this could use better documentation, both for "serial" command
>>> and "Serial terminal" section.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> "serial --speed=115200 efi0" also doesn't work.
>
> Please define "does not work". What you expect it to do and how you
> verify it?
>

I expect that it will show grub menu on serial port where I wait for
it. I believe that the port itself is working because I see linux
kernel console output redirected to serial after grub timeout.

>> It seems that there is no Serial IO protocol in my Insyde UEFI.
>>
>
> What is output of "terminal_input" and "terminal_output"?
>
>

serial --speed=115200 efi0
terminal_input serial
terminal_output serial


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