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Date:      Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:47:57 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/28296: change request for sys/i386/conf/NOTES
Message-ID:  <20010621094757.A3591@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106210500.f5L503u26669@freefall.freebsd.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:00:03PM -0700
References:  <200106210500.f5L503u26669@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:00:03PM -0700, Bruce Evans wrote:
[...]
>  
>  Usage bugs:
>  - This option should never be used, at least on i386's.  It was superseded
>    by better support for using the speed set by the boot loader (this
>    speed is configured by BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in /etc/make.conf).  It
>    was removed in 1997 in rev.1.170 of sio.c but unremoved in the next
>    commit, apparently to work around deficiencies in nonstandard boot
>    loaders.  There is also a sysctl to change the speed.
>  
Not everyone uses loader(8).  :-)


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