From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 28 23:28:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA18530 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:28:30 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA18524 for ; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:28:28 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id XAA00500; Sun, 28 May 1995 23:27:50 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505290627.XAA00500@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: aargh! How to handle 128 ttys on a system? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 23:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, peter@haywire.DIALix.COM In-Reply-To: <199505290255.MAA24888@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 29, 95 12:55:12 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 719 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ... > >Also, the probe/attach only leaves the card in a quiescent state. I'm > >using a user mode program the uploads the firmware for the host controller > >and booting it in /etc/rc*. This step also configures the port array. > >Was there a decision made on the best place to put these during the boot > >sequence? > > No, but if serial lines are used for networking, then they must be > initialized very early, before /etc/netstart is run. This could be handled by /etc/start_if.${ifn} within /etc/netstart, it is one of the reasons that is even there. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD