From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 24 11:40:47 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA17691 for current-outgoing; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:40:47 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA17499 for ; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:32:29 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12130; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:30:01 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id UAA04164 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:30:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id UAA12140 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:29:27 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503241929.UAA12140@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 20:29:27 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199503241919.FAA31023@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 25, 95 05:19:05 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 841 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > > >> The syscons scrollback buffer could be enlarged too. > > >What are you going to do with pcvt or (even worse) serial consoles? > > Foreign drivers must provide standard services or they won't survive. pcvt is not foreign (it existed since 386BSD 0.1), sio certainly even less. :-) And then, what's a ``standard service''? Even syscons has been missing this ``standard service'' for very long, so it's been ``non-standard'' before? > Serial consoles are easy. Connect to something with a scrollback > buffer, or use a slow line speed so that you can read everything. No, i don't buy this. I agree with those who do wish to have the boot messages less verbose. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)