[SerialICE] qemu serialice hang

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:04:40 -0700, Marc Jones <marcj303 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Stefan Reinauer <stepan at coresystems.de>
> wrote:
>> Marc Jones wrote:
>>> Resending.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Marc Jones <marcj303 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I pulled the latest from serialice svn and I have built lua and bitlib
>>>> and the qemu that was in svn.
>>>>
>>>> I start qemu with serialice on ttyS0 like this:
>>>> $ ./i386-softmmu/qemu -M serialice -serialice /dev/ttyS0 -hda
>>>> /dev/zero -L ./bios > logfile.txt
>>>>
>>>> SerialICE: Open connection to target hardware...
>>>>
>> It looks like the SerialICE shell is not answering to the hand shake...
>>
>>>> Is the only message in the logfile and it hangs. I don't get a X qemu
>>>> window, so it seems like it isn't getting very far. Any idea on what
>>>> it would be hung up on or how I should debug it?
>>>>
>>>> Also, what is the tty needed by serialice for since we are connecting
>>>> with gdb? Is that just serialice output?
>>>>
>>
>> The tty is for the SerialICE shell. Does the SerialICE shell answer with
>> a prompt? (i.e. in minicom)
> 
> Ok, I was assuming that gdb would be connecting. What is setup do i
> need to do with minicom? Can minicom and serialice connect to the same
> port? Would that work?
> 
Yes you can run serilaice and your terminal console at the same time. You
just have to setup the port (that your cable is connected to) and baudrate.
Just like you setup to get serial console in coreboot. Once you are getting
the serialice shell then run the qemu command. Does that make sense?

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org