Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 23:43:10 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question: hacking init_main.c Message-ID: <3CDF607E.CEC51FFE@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0205121758360.38560-100000@BigKing.sinp.msu.ru> <3CDEB3C5.7D08D187@mindspring.com> <20020512162506.I2566@locore.ca> <3CDF4FA5.8511B01A@mindspring.com> <20020513015926.J2566@locore.ca> <3CDF5EEB.ACEB8F8@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > What can I say... PC hardware is stupid. > > The SPARC console code is handled by the PROM code. PC hardware > rarely has code in the POST routines to set up a console properly > (you can get AMD BIOS that has the ability to send everything out > the serial consle, and assumes it's talking to a VT100, but most > motherboards don't have it). Before I forget: even the AMD BIOS doesn't save you, since the FreeBSD probe code doesn't "remember" the previous hardware settings, so the FreeBSD initialization destroys the old settings. So you have to carefully match the BIOS settings with the kernel settings. 8-(. The FreeBSD keyboard probe is equally destructive for some KVM switches (see previous threads). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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