Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:16:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE: a patch and a problem Message-ID: <199603122216.XAA05836@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603122143.NAA07339@cozumel.tcs.com> from "Douglas Ambrisko" at Mar 12, 96 01:43:50 pm
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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. ;-)
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