Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:42:20 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200608232337.k7NNbJT8032059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060824091852.GE66037@submonkey.net> <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ]
> >=20
> > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC
> > >=20
> > > FreeBSD doc repository
> > >=20
> > > Modified files:
> > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml=20
> > > Log:
> > > Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention
> > > ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the
> > > boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding
> > > the boot blocks may be the only option.
> >=20
> > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to
> > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images?
>=20
> That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard =
is=20
> present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and e=
nd=20
> up sending their output to the serial console.
OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here. Never mind.
> We could use -D though, that=20
> would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot =
-h)=20
> to force sysinstall to use the serial console.
That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before! It would
help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build
custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though.
Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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