From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 17:01:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2597316A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:01:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A77443D58 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:01:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grafan@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id r21so601928wxc for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:01:10 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=jcIvNUO7V4/XZJnqs0ZrB3YO7rLxFhJXNpgs5ZCjUIdedC4PXDupm2kvCdEzzJs7h+ddNucVZYxgbXcgV4oRJzdbjR47LSUilxZiOzJCUVSMVx2xV0uCvx6O/8bWvbAwl2yRpeby8Eu+w/6KfBk3lV0jgKs/Ihs+mPeetimOHQ8= Received: by 10.70.109.18 with SMTP id h18mr2626168wxc; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:01:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.125.17 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 09:01:08 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <6eb82e0602270901n703ac969g5c4af69f1563317@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:01:08 -0500 From: "Rong-En Fan" To: "Ruslan Ermilov" In-Reply-To: <20060227083820.GK42677@ip.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200602260156.aa34941@nowhere.iedowse.com> <440200F2.9010106@andric.com> <20060227083820.GK42677@ip.net.ua> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_6: serial console drops back from 115200 to 9600 baud X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:01:12 -0000 On 2/27/06, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > Ian Dowse wrote: > > >> Okay, but why did 4.x through 5.x through 6.x (these have all been o= n > > >> this particular machine) always boot with 115200 until now? :) > > > > > They probably used 9600 for the boot blocks, and then switched to > > > 115200 when /boot/loader started, so you didn't notice. Now the > > > settings from the boot blocks get used by /boot/loader. > > > > Ah, but this still means that /boot/loader used to use a hardcoded > > default specified in /etc/make.conf, and now it doesn't honor that anym= ore. > > > Have you checked with documentation? > > : comconsole_speed > : Defines the speed of the serial console (i386 and amd64 only)= . > : If the previous boot stage indicated that a serial console is > : in use then this variable is initialized to the current speed > : of the console serial port. Otherwise it is set to 9600 unle= ss > : this was overridden using the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED variable > : when loader was compiled. Changes to the comconsole_speed > : variable take effect immediately. Which way is preferred: setting comconsole_speed, -S in boot.config, or using harded code BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in make.conf? If now the most preferred way is to using -S or comconsole_speed in loader.conf, please update that in Handbook 22.6.5.1 Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed. Thanks, Rong-En Fan