From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 5 11:51:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA06138 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:51:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06068 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA28046 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:50:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA08995 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:50:45 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA00904 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:48:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604051948.VAA00904@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMCONSOLE speed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:48:03 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604051837.EAA18526@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 6, 96 04:37:30 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >> Back to the subject: Bruce, wouldn't it be a good idea to only handle > >> the comconsole speed in the bootstrap, and pass the settings down to > >> the kernel via the `struct bootinfo'? > > They should be passed if they can be set there. There is no room to set > set them there :-). It will have to be patched into the bootblock anyway. Otherwise you'd run into a chicken-and-egg problem, unless you're going to implement such a crock as the ``Press BREAK for next speed'' model. Passing it down from the bootstrap would centralize the location to modify to just one however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)