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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2007 17:49:07 +0200
From:      Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein@gmail.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@freebsd.org>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386 Makefile src/sys/boot/i386/libfirewire Makefile dconsole.c firewire.c fwohci.c fwohci.h fwohcireg.h src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile conf.c main.c
Message-ID:  <20070601154907.GB1786@roadrunner.q.local>
In-Reply-To: <200705301611.58581.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200705291435.l4TEZvBv063063@repoman.freebsd.org> <200705301611.58581.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:05, Hidetoshi Shimokawa wrote:
> >   It is disabled by default. You need to put
> >   LOADER_FIREWIRE_SUPPORT=yes in /etc/make.conf
> >   and rebuild loader to enable it.
> >   (cd /sys/boot/i386 && make clean && make && make install)
> >
> >   You can find a short introduction of dcons at
> >   http://wiki.freebsd.org/DebugWithDcons
> 
> Awesome!

Indeed.

> Now if only some BIOS supported console over Firewire it'd be perfect :)

LinuxBIOS, perhaps? Though they don't boot a FreeBSD loader (yet?)

Ulrich Spoerlein
-- 
"The trouble with the dictionary is you have to know how the word is
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