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Date:      28 Jul 2003 12:03:43 -0500
From:      Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
To:        Daniel Lang <langd-freebsd-hackers@leo.org>
Cc:        Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xfs.org>
Subject:   Re: Console serial speed
Message-ID:  <1059411822.92723.145.camel@lupo.thebarn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030726121240.GA5511@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
References:  <1059156388.34654.94.camel@rose.americas.sgi.com> <20030726090636.GK22295@spc.org> <20030726121240.GA5511@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

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On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 07:12, Daniel Lang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Bruce M Simpson wrote on Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:06:36AM +0100:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:06:28PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > > How does one set the serial speed of the console.
> > 
> > Does specifying BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=57600 not work?
> 
> No, I've experienced the same problem years ago.
> The funny thing is, that it worked on some machines, 
> while it didn't on others.
> 
> I worked around the problem by putting
> machdep.conspeed=38400
> in /etc/sysctl.conf, so the speed is reset to the right
> speed, once the system is up.
> 
> Of course this doesn't work for boot2, loader or the kernel
> itself. These three components seem to set their console speed
> in some cases arbitrarly.
Yes this seems to be the case.
No matter how hard I try to convince sio.c to default to 57600
(I even went as far at setting
static  volatile speed_t        comdefaultrate = CONSPEED;
to 57600)
so there would be no confusion.
I still end up with random console speed each time.

The boot loader did pick up the speed from /etc/make.conf and
does come up every time at 57600.



> 
> In my kernel I have the CONSPEED and the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED
> in make.conf set accordingly.
> 
> Anyway its not a big problem for me now any more, so I never
> filed a PR.
> 
> Best regards,
>  Daniel
-- 
Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>



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