From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 12:29:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E4416A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:29:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AA943D45 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:29:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (junior-wifi.samsco.home [192.168.0.11]) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3UJWgu6096356; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:32:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4092A8EB.5090709@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 13:28:43 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040304 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gavin Atkinson References: <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple console support for loader(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:29:01 -0000 Gavin Atkinson wrote: > Hi, > > For a while I have been frustrated that the /boot.config -D option only > works for the boot1/2 and has no effect in the loader. > > http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/bootmulti.diff contails patches to > support multiple consoles in the loader, and allows a single -D option > in /boot.config to give dual console support to the bootblocks, the > loader and the kernel. > > Before I go ahead and tidy the patches up, document the changes and code > the non-i386 parts, is this something that is wanted? It always seemed > strange to me that boot2 could support dual consoles, while the loader > couldn't even with it's very nice console framework code. > > Gavin Yes, this has been on my TODO list for several years =-) While you are at it, what do you think about cleaning up the serial code so that the line settings can be controlled easier and more uniformly? Scott