From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 17 20: 3: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71DE837B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:03:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from exgw2.lumeta.com (exgw2.lumeta.com [65.198.68.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A59FD43E42 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 20:02:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tal@lumeta.com) Received: from lucy.corp.lumeta.com (h65-198-68-133.lumeta.com [65.198.68.133]) by exgw2.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A5F373837 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AF810820 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lumeta.com (guard.lumeta.com [65.198.68.131]) by lucy.corp.lumeta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D091081E for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 23:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D35BCA3.4C1673FB@lumeta.com> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:51:16 -0400 From: Tom Limoncelli Organization: Lumeta Corp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When is FreeBSD going to work properly with KVM switches? References: <200207152335.g6FNZwj83570@kpt-c-24-159-35-85.chartertn.net> <20020716100741.A39217@ei.bzerk.org> <3D342883.5090600@lumeta.com> <1026829866.56263.5.camel@daemon.velosystems.net> <20020716164618.A40753@ei.bzerk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruben de Groot wrote: > The reason there's a flag in the GENERIC kernel to only try the > keyboard once on boot-up has something to do with trying to make the > GENERIC kernel as generic as possible (so when a check for PS/2 keyboard > fails, for example, it will continue to look for other keyboards, like > USB). At least, that's what I'm told. A general solution would be extremely useful for sites (like mine) that can't guarantee that a keyboard will be there when the host reboots. Is the serial port assumed to be the console if all the keyboard tests (legacy, USB, etc.) fail? If so, then a better flag would be a global, "If no keyboard(s) are found, should I use the serial port as the console?"-flag. Settinng this flag to "no" would re-check for physical keyboards now and then. --Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message