Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:30:53 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com>, "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 5305 kernel compile issues with 5.0RC2 Message-ID: <15898.62125.546133.489680@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030107152408.GD28476@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E34D9@waexch1.qgraph.com> <15898.58016.810412.610032@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030107152408.GD28476@cicely8.cicely.de>
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Bernd Walter writes: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:22:24AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > BTW, attempting to remove the keyboard controller for a serial machine > > is a silly microptimization. You'll save a few K of kernel memory, at > > the cost of totally screwing yourself if you ever need to boot the > > machine with a graphics head (like if your terminal server goes bad). > > I've learned that it's required to remove them. > It is to force booting the machine with serial. I think that's nuts. If we don't respect the SRM console variable, then we have a bug. One that I"ve never seen, btw. Can you point to a scenario where this happens? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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