From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Aug 30 10: 9:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C737F37B42C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA10478; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:09:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e7UH9LB03772; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:09:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 13:09:20 -0400 (EDT) To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com Subject: Re: Console problems on alpha with -current In-Reply-To: <200008301629.JAA39892@vashon.polstra.com> References: <200008300505.WAA43988@pike.osd.bsdi.com> <200008301629.JAA39892@vashon.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14765.16197.526178.360097@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Polstra writes: > It seems you are right about the cause of the problem. I have now > built a kernel with the hints compiled in statically using the "hints" > directive in the config file. The console works fine in that kernel. How does one statically compile in hints? I'd like to testboot some kernels on some machines I have laying around that are locked at 4.0-RELEASE to make sure the new busspace works on them. I'd also like to avoid messing w/the bootloader configuration.. Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message