Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:13:04 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Subject: Re: Serial console in -current Message-ID: <199707190843.SAA13303@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707190821.SAA32574@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 19, 97 06:21:14 pm"
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >Ok, so getting over my prior irritation about this, it occurs to me > >that the flag concept is indicated because someone wants to use > >something other than sio for serial console output. > > > >Is this actually the case? > > No one does that yet AFAIK (it's hard, since other drivers don't support > serial consoles and the boot blocks don't support other hardware), but I > don't want to add code that would make it harder. Also, the flags concept > is simpler if there are no special cases. Understood. How would you propose to handle the case where none of the serial devices are marked as console but RB_SERIAL is set? The current behaviour is undeniably bogus, not to mention annoying. 8) > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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