Date: Sat, 25 May 1996 09:28:44 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The view from here (was Re: ISDN Compression Load on CPU) Message-ID: <199605250728.JAA26840@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199605242259.QAA16933@rover.village.org> from Warner Losh at "May 24, 96 04:59:45 pm"
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> : Some obvious modifications would be: > : - Use the serial port as console > : - Make the lack of keyboard and video a non-error > > I'd love to see something like that. Would save me $20/machine that I > press into router service :-). > Most motherboard/BIOS combinations allow that nowadays. I have a lot of machines (PC's) that don't have a keyboard, screencard and screen. I manage them through the serial port or through the network. I only need a screen and keyboard if the CMOS setup has to change and that is normally only in the beginning. I use bootblocks that is a little modified to actually fail if their is no keyboard which is getting closer lately with the addition of the PROBE_KEYBOARD option. The other change that I make is to modify the probe routine of syscons to fail if there is no keyboard. Otherwise the system panic when it tries to do bcopy's to a nonexistant screencard. These two changes allow me to put a screen and keyboard into a sick machine and it will then use that and not the serial port anymore. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za
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