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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: serial console speed
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On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 03:21:14PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> it seems that there is no way to change the speed/baudrate of the serial
> console, for example, by turning it off in /etc/ttys, and running
> tip(1) with different speeds has no effect, it always
> stays at the kernel configured speed.
> 
> is this by design?

Yes.

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