From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 18:19:58 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A9D6106566B for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:19:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07CB8FC08 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from david@catwhisker.org) Received: from albert.catwhisker.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n25I0Isp028754; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@albert.catwhisker.org) Received: (from david@localhost) by albert.catwhisker.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n25I0IqF028753; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:00:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:00:18 -0800 From: David Wolfskill To: Martin Cracauer Message-ID: <20090305180018.GF4315@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20090305155721.GA70584@cons.org> <20090305175245.GA76821@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="b8GWCKCLzrXbuNet" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090305175245.GA76821@cons.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console options X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:19:58 -0000 --b8GWCKCLzrXbuNet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:52:45PM -0500, Martin Cracauer wrote: > ... > Using the serial port for the mainboard's BIOS might or might not > disable it's use for console or debugging, that was my question. In my experience to date, it does not (disable); rather, the same serial port may be used for access to the BIOS, as well as for logging in (via /etc/ttys). I haven't tried kgdb over serial, but I have no reason to believe that the BIOS use of the port will affect that, either. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Depriving a girl or boy of an opportunity for education is evil. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --b8GWCKCLzrXbuNet Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkmwEzEACgkQmprOCmdXAD2JiACdFXJ83LcMwOn1QXb/72UufOsZ nFMAoICbW9NXddB5mImeIzkoImD2bPUe =axI3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --b8GWCKCLzrXbuNet--