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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:07:56 +0530 (IST)
From:      Kapil Chowksey <kchowksey@hss.hns.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   console question
Message-ID:  <199807121137.RAA06121@tarang.hss.hns.com>

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hi all,

I wonder if it is possible to have multiple devices as consoles with
FreeBSD/i386 ? eg. a Serial port as well as the monitor. By reading
i386/i386/cons.c, it appears to be not.

If it is not, then I would want to put away with the layer provided by
i386/i386/cons.c while porting to sparc beacause the OpenBoot PROM
already provides a console abstraction.

Meanwhile, I have a functional locore.S and a PROM library with I/O
routines and device tree browsing routines.

I want to work on adding more debug infrastructure now with symbol
table lookups and a panic routine which brings you to the PROM where
you can do a `ctrace'. Also, integrating things with the BSD
`configure'.

-- 
Kapil Chowksey                         Viva GNU !
kchowksey@hss.hns.com

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