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Date:      Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:15 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multiple console support for loader(8)
Message-ID:  <20040510072015.GB46619@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040509195304.U21997@ury.york.ac.uk>
References:  <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20040509195304.U21997@ury.york.ac.uk>

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On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 07:58:55PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> OK, I've had a lot of positive feedback about this both on and off the
> list so have gone ahead and finished the patch off. I've updated the file
> at http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/bootmulti.diff and submitted PR
> kern/66425 to keep track of it. I have included the same changes to the
> PC98 code (although this is untested) and have updated boot(8) and
> loader(8). I have not touched other platforms as I have no idea if they
> need it, but I suspect amd64 may need similar changes. I'm happy to code a
> patch for this if someone will confirm that it is necessary.

It is necessary.  For things related to boot (and firmware), amd64 is
identical to i386.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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