Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:49:31 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console in -current Message-ID: <199707190919.SAA13422@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707190906.TAA00966@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 19, 97 07:06:24 pm"
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >Understood. How would you propose to handle the case where none of the > >serial devices are marked as console but RB_SERIAL is set? The > >current behaviour is undeniably bogus, not to mention annoying. 8) > > Same as if there are no serial devices configured - tell the user to > not use a silly configuration :-). Uh, it's not a particularly silly configuration when you consider the historical behaviour of the option, especially in conjunction with the current behaviour of the bootblock. > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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