Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:31:54 -0700 From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, d@delphij.net Subject: Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling Message-ID: <A8CBC73C-2030-4E1C-83D7-31A7BB6FE109@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <20121018214832.GB8009@ambrisko.com> References: <5078A803.7070705@delphij.net> <CAGH67wQNr%2BZtZPUs-NfLYixEDtzv_O6q4kFhcjFyfacMPfssBw@mail.gmail.com> <5078B145.4090501@delphij.net> <CAGH67wTOAK5vcbtgY91_QR8iHBUx9_RqV6cs5ZwG3GW8H=LE2w@mail.gmail.com> <20121018214832.GB8009@ambrisko.com>
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On Oct 18, 2012, at 14:48 , Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:13:47PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> | On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net> wrote:
> | > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> | > Hash: SHA256
> |=20
> | ...
> |=20
> | > Ah I wish I am not this far behind my email backlog. Yes I think
> | > these (241300 and 241301) will solve the problem.
> |=20
> | Yeah -- forgot about the other one. There's another enhancement
> | that would make this even better (apart from maybe having multiple
> | primary consoles): setting the primary console if present and having
> | fallbacks in the event that the original primary wasn't set or
> | configurable; it was a thing that was present in another project I
> | worked on with sio that was pretty slick (and I think that there =
would
> | be some parties who wouldn't mind if the same was done with =
uart(4)).
>=20
> This concept was objected to when I checked it into sio(4) so I had
> to back it out. Some liked it. I have ported it to uart(4) since we
> need that functionality when we moved to a newer FreeBSD.
BTW, sorry to come in late on the thread. Would this cause the loader
to reset the machine? On a box in my work testlab I have not
been able to use a recent /boot/loader for a few weeks.
I get to the BIOS drive C: is disk0 =
=20
bit and BOOM.
Best,
George=
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