From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 12 14:51:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA26690 for current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:51:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA26681 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:51:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA27926 for ; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:51:20 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA09973 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:51:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA05836 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:16:28 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603122216.XAA05836@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:16:27 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603122143.NAA07339@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Mar 12, 96 01:43:50 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Douglas Ambrisko wrote: > I'll also take a look at syscons and see why it should > be different. syscons uses a different tty structure for the console than for VT1. > I'll try to put my patches together this weekend, I'm pretty tied up this > week. I also want to take a look at the kernel to see if I can save > the last boot mode. This way you can boot -h to get the serial port and -g > to get the graphics console and the kernel would remember that for the > next boot. By now, -h is a toggle (btw.). Most people would hesitate if you always write back the boot block, just to store a single bit in it. Well, van Gilluwe reports bit 2 of the so-called ``equipment byte'' in the CMOS (offset 0x14) as `unused'. Perhaps we could use it to store the serial console flag there? :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)