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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: current@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au
Subject: Re: Serial console in -current
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>Ok, so getting over my prior irritation about this, it occurs to me
>that the flag concept is indicated because someone wants to use
>something other than sio for serial console output.
>
>Is this actually the case?

No one does that yet AFAIK (it's hard, since other drivers don't support
serial consoles and the boot blocks don't support other hardware), but I
don't want to add code that would make it harder.  Also, the flags concept
is simpler if there are no special cases.

Bruce