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From: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 13:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: cvs commit: src/etc make.conf
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nik         1999/07/28 13:28:55 PDT

  Modified files:
    etc                  make.conf 
  Log:
  Explicitly list the i/o addresses of the serial ports.
  
  Prompted by docs/12343, in which people seemed to get a little confused.
  The original text in the file said:
  
  [...]
  # By default we use COM1 as our serial console port *if* we're going to use
  # a serial port as our console at all.  (0x3E8 = COM2)
  #
  #BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8
  [...]
  
  From what I can make out, some people have assumed that means that if
  they just uncomment the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT then it will use COM2:
  These same people then assume that "0x3F8" on that line is a typo for
  "0x3E8".
  
  What it actually means is that if you uncomment the line then the default
  stays as "Ox3F8" (COM1:), and that you have to uncomment the line, *and*
  change the value of the variable in order to use COM2:.
  
  So I've made that a little bit clearer.  I've also listed the hex values
  for COM1: thru COM4:, snarfed from sys/isa/isareg.h.
  
  PR:             docs/12343
  Submitted by:   Bill Grunfelder <wjgrun@dippy.cyberwar.com>
  
  Revision  Changes    Path
  1.82      +4 -2      src/etc/make.conf



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