Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:19:10 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml Message-ID: <200608241719.10921.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net> References: <200608232337.k7NNbJT8032059@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net>
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On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:42, Ceri Davies wrote: > 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 ] > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > > > > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > > > > > Modified files: > > > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml > > > > 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. > > > > > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > > > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images? > > > > That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is > > present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end > > 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 > > would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h) > > 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. It's old, kernel and boot2 have supported it for a long time, but /boot/loader has only properly handled -D for the past year or so now. -- John Baldwin
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