From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 12:14:04 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26ECA160A for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:14:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BD5E34E for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:14:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-85-105.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.85.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r1L9cxxq084990 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:09:04 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server] Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" X-Priority: 3 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:08:57 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <4DAC976A-FAC4-4B8A-A1A7-DB58387D8D53@gsoft.com.au> References: <20130220065810.GA25027@psconsult.nl> <20130220074655.GA59952@psconsult.nl> <20130220111339.GA65661@psconsult.nl> <8C2980B2-3B2C-4081-9287-39EFB47ABC3D@gsoft.com.au> <20130220203148.GA1803@psconsult.nl> <1BC5F51A18464B83BA79890CC349128C@multiplay.co.uk> To: "Steven Hartland" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Paul Schenkeveld X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:14:04 -0000 On 21/02/2013, at 19:33, "Steven Hartland" = wrote: >> I had a quick look at the code and AFAIK it doesn't do anything (on = 9.1 anyway). >> Actually at a guess I would say it's a hangover from sio(4) where = 0x20 forced the >> device in question to be the console. >=20 > According to the handbook, where I got the settings from, 0x20: > "Forces this unit to be the console (unless there is another higher = priority console), > regardless of the -h option discussed below. The flag 0x20 must be = used together with > the 0x10 flag." Yes but that is about sio, not uart. sio(4) has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console 0x00020 device is forced to become system console but uart(4) just has.. 0x00010 device is potential system console -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C