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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.   |
                      - Theodore Geisel |



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