From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 21 03:22:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA05017 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (ala-ca18-12.ix.netcom.com [204.32.168.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA05012 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from asami@localhost) by silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU (8.8.6/8.6.9) id DAA21887; Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 03:22:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707211022.DAA21887@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> To: bde@zeta.org.au CC: ahd@kew.com, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199707210634.QAA32661@godzilla.zeta.org.au> (message from Bruce Evans on Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:34:50 +1000) Subject: Re: switching to seral consoles From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk * The old way doesn't work properly. The advantage of the flags are that * they let the user specify exactly which serial ports can be consoles * (flag 0x10), and which serial ports are consoles (flag 0x20 together with * flag 0x10). You can have no consoles if you really want that (previously, Bruce, I appreciate all the work you are doing around here recently, but do you mind (oops :) updating the man pages too? I know I'm supposed to read all the commit messages and diff all the changes, but things are changing so quickly my head is starting to spin. Satoshi