Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 19:22:14 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241920240.93378-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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
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