From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jan 7 7:31:10 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CCB37B401 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF8543ED4 for ; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 07:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h07FUwro009348 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:30:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id h07FUrx59585; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:30:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15898.62125.546133.489680@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:30:53 -0500 (EST) To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" , "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 5305 kernel compile issues with 5.0RC2 In-Reply-To: <20030107152408.GD28476@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF47464E34D9@waexch1.qgraph.com> <15898.58016.810412.610032@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20030107152408.GD28476@cicely8.cicely.de> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bernd Walter writes: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:22:24AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > BTW, attempting to remove the keyboard controller for a serial machine > > is a silly microptimization. You'll save a few K of kernel memory, at > > the cost of totally screwing yourself if you ever need to boot the > > machine with a graphics head (like if your terminal server goes bad). > > I've learned that it's required to remove them. > It is to force booting the machine with serial. I think that's nuts. If we don't respect the SRM console variable, then we have a bug. One that I"ve never seen, btw. Can you point to a scenario where this happens? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message