From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 17 01:45:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA04719 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA04702 for ; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 01:45:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.5/8.7.3) id KAA00442; Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:46:25 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199702170946.KAA00442@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: boot messages (Was: Sun Workshop compiler vs. GCC?) In-Reply-To: <199702170322.NAA07336@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Feb 17, 97 01:52:21 pm" To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 10:46:16 +0100 (MET) Cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Michael Smith who wrote: > John-Mark Gurney stands accused of saying: > > > > this may sound like a stupid question.. but can you check the > > keyboard between probes to see if there are any keypresses.... I remeber > > We've already been over all this; I've proposed a between-probes hook, > but I don't think that anyone would be particularly keen on it as a concept. > > It would be just as easy for the console output code to check whenever > it's printing output, which happens between/during probes; perhaps on > every newline. > > Soren? Hmm, well, I could add a check for char input at the right places in syscons, all I need is to find out when we are finished probing... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..