Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 21:53:07 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mdz@netrail.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Serial console? Message-ID: <199603091123.VAA12952@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199603090814.JAA25649@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Mar 9, 96 09:14:25 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying:
>
> > options COMCONSOLE in your kernel config, rebuild, reboot.
>
> j@uriah 216% find /sys/i386 -name '*.c' | fgrep COMCONSOLE
> j@uriah 217%
That's very good; there's no file called 'COMCONSOLE' in there.
Not really surprising 8)
* $Id: sio.c,v 1.134 1996/01/25 07:21:36 phk Exp $
...
void
siocnprobe(cp)
struct consdev *cp;
{
int unit;
/* XXX: ick */
unit = DEV_TO_UNIT(CONUNIT);
siocniobase = CONADDR;
/* make sure hardware exists? XXX */
/* initialize required fields */
cp->cn_dev = makedev(CDEV_MAJOR, unit);
#ifdef COMCONSOLE
cp->cn_pri = CN_REMOTE; /* Force a serial port console */
#else
cp->cn_pri = (boothowto & RB_SERIAL) ? CN_REMOTE : CN_NORMAL;
#endif
}
... now, I'm a little out of date here at home, but I was sure this still
did it. Has it been recently diked?
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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