Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:02:19 -0500 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tty changes and GENERIC Message-ID: <20041112130218.GA6031@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <C101E3B3-3473-11D9-96F5-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net> References: <20041112043338.GB25694@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <C101E3B3-3473-11D9-96F5-000D93C47836@xcllnt.net>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:26:14PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
> >At least on the set of machines I have access to uart seems to be
> >the tty driver that's finding the ports. My serial console port
> >is coming up as '/dev/screen'.
>
> Do you happen to use ofw_console(4)?
Duh. Thanks. Yes. Machines fly all over the place around here,
leaving their EEPROM settings as-is and relying on absence of the
keyboard to tell the PROM it should use the serial port is by far
the least painful way to deal with it.
--
Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
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