From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 02:19:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA15545 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 02:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA15540 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 02:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id SAA13422; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:49:31 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707190919.SAA13422@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Serial console in -current In-Reply-To: <199707190906.TAA00966@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jul 19, 97 07:06:24 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:49:31 +0930 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 [[