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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Subject: Re: Serial console problems with stable/8
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* Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> @ Jeremy:  Thank you for the detailed response!  I will
> make sure to bring a multimeter with me and check the
> pin connections on my nullmodem cable.  I'm still curious
> why this cable worked with 7.x with the same configuration.

I seem to remember some of the drivers enforced CLOCAL when the device
is used as a boot device. Maybe sio(4) does this, while uart(4) does
not? An advantage of the patch is that it makes this construct
superfluous.

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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