From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 24 19:22:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3950C37B71A; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:22:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA26213; Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:22:19 -0800 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:22:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: "David O'Brien" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... In-Reply-To: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:39:57PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > I sure wish I knew what happened here, but at some point past 4.2, > > /dev/console got broken for Alpha 8200s. > > This past week, I committed a change that removed the getty off of the > console device, and put one on ttyd0. This was due to people saying they > were getting garbage on their consoles. I never saw this on my > Miata-MX5, or AS250. But others said they did. Andrew (and Mike Smith) > wasn't happy with the commit I made that put the getty on the console > device. > > I liked having the getty on the console device, as you *always* had a > getty no matter what type of console you had, and no matter if you > changed the type of console post-install. > > How does NetBSD/Alpha handle this? IIRC NetBSD/Sparc runs a getty on the > console device and things Just Work. NetBSD/Alpha has ttyE0/ttyd0 (the real device) IIRC (don't have one up at the moment). NetBSD/Sparc has console because you're always guaranteed a prom telling you what console is. I personally like having a getty on /dev/console because, as you say, you'll always get something. But if the consensus is that you must run the getty on a real device (why even *have* a /dev/console then, I mean showing up in /dev?), then I need to know whether we should add zs0 back to /etc/gettytab. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message