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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jacob@jblhome.ping.dk
Subject: Re: /usr/src/etc/Makefile install rule.
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>    J> rc.serial is, too.  It only contains commented out stuff, in
>    J> the expectation that the local admin might turn on the bits as
>    J> required.
>
>Why not parametrize this file too, like the other rc files? Put
>something like:
>
>  serial_devices="standard cyclades mouse"
>  serial_standard="maybe d a 0 1"
>  serial_cyclades="modem c c 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0a 0b 0c 0d 0e 0f"
>  serial_mouse="mouse d a 2"

It would probably require too many knobs - potentially one for each stty
option applied with a different setting to each port.

Bruce