From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 10 00:20:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2DD16A51E for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from TRANG.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF22E43D46 for ; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by TRANG.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4A7KGPI046728; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i4A7KGPi046727; Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 00:20:15 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Gavin Atkinson Message-ID: <20040510072015.GB46619@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <1083337414.828.7.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20040509195304.U21997@ury.york.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040509195304.U21997@ury.york.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple console support for loader(8) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:20:30 -0000 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)