Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:56:11 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: serial console on 8.x (probably sio vs uart) Message-ID: <p06240803c4f05c411ae3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <48CAA137.6040404@elischer.org> References: <p06240801c4ef771564d6@128.113.24.47> <75BD7074-F561-42D5-A537-FFF44B612BFB@mac.com> <e7db6d980809112310l298d7aaan5760c29f2fc052d9@mail.gmail.com> <48CA089B.6010102@elischer.org> <64026D00-137A-47AE-B03E-F6A3F3769101@mac.com> <48CAA137.6040404@elischer.org>
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At 10:04 AM -0700 9/12/08, Julian Elischer wrote: >> >>No. Hints are optional and misused as they are. We're >>not making things any cleaner if we make driver X look >>for hints for driver Y. > > >yeah but I almost bricked a machine the other day upgrading because >I didn't have any uart hints but there were sio hints from the >previous kernel that would have done the job. /usr/src/UPDATING includes some boot-loader commands which are supposed to help people who get into that situation. That didn't work for me, but ... Hmm. actually that reminds me of something I forgot to try. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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