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From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Serial console?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 21:53:07 +1030 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199603090814.JAA25649@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 9, 96 09:14:25 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
> 
> > options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot.
> 
> j@uriah 216% find /sys/i386 -name '*.c' | fgrep COMCONSOLE
> j@uriah 217% 

That's very good; there's no file called 'COMCONSOLE' in there.
Not really surprising 8)

 *      $Id: sio.c,v 1.134 1996/01/25 07:21:36 phk Exp $
...
void
siocnprobe(cp)
        struct consdev  *cp;
{
        int     unit;

        /* XXX: ick */
        unit = DEV_TO_UNIT(CONUNIT);
        siocniobase = CONADDR;

        /* make sure hardware exists?  XXX */

        /* initialize required fields */
        cp->cn_dev = makedev(CDEV_MAJOR, unit);
#ifdef COMCONSOLE
        cp->cn_pri = CN_REMOTE;         /* Force a serial port console */
#else
        cp->cn_pri = (boothowto & RB_SERIAL) ? CN_REMOTE : CN_NORMAL;
#endif
}

... now, I'm a little out of date here at home, but I was sure this still
did it.  Has it been recently diked?

> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE

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