From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 30 14:21:31 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 64CF716A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49E8243D39 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3ULLUIQ086103; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i3ULLTNU086102; Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 14:21:28 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Gavin Atkinson Message-ID: <20040430212128.GD85783@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Reply-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 21:21:31 -0000 On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > 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? Why are there non-i386 parts? (well s/non-i386/non-i386 & non-amd64). Sparcs and Alphas both DTRT with serial consoles. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)