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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:56:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham)
Subject:   Re: Serial console for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <199610140756.JAA04798@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.961012003857.durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from Jim Durham at "Oct 12, 96 00:35:43 am"

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As Jim Durham wrote:

> >Better yet, patch your bootblocks to force a serial console.  The

> Does the console have to be on sio0 ? How does one
> specify which com port if not ?

The location, the speed, and the line behaviour (local line, modem
signals not obeyed) is hardcoded in the bootblocks and in the kernel
(sio.c, if i'm not mistaken).  So yes, unless you wanna patch all
this, it's hardcoded to sio0 and 9600 Bd.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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