From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 12 04:32:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18911 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tapti.hss.hns.com (tapti.hss.hns.com [139.85.242.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18904; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:32:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kchowksey@hss.hns.com) Received: from tarang.hss.hns.com (tarang.hss.hns.com [139.85.242.33]) by tapti.hss.hns.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26428; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:19:52 +0530 (IST) Received: (from kchowksey@localhost) by tarang.hss.hns.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) id RAA06121; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:07:56 +0530 (IST) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:07:56 +0530 (IST) Message-Id: <199807121137.RAA06121@tarang.hss.hns.com> From: Kapil Chowksey MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG CC: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: console question X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message