Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:16:33 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp>, mike@smith.net.au, pvernon@purdue.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question Message-ID: <199808271816.SAA01648@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:07:15 MST." <16809.904266435@time.cdrom.com>
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> > Now, as a blind FreeBSD user/developer, I'd like to include > > boot.config that has ``-D'' in our boot floppy so that we don't have > > to ask any sighted geek to look for the Boot: prompt in order to let > > the installer dump everything to the serial port. > > Hmmmmm. Looking at README.serial, I can't see any downside - can > anyone else? What happens in the case where you have no serial ports, > does the kernel just ignore it and continue? (Sorry, my FreeBSD spam > box is Linux'd at the moment or I'd check quickly for myself :). > > If it's entirely benign, I see no reason why you shouldn't make the > relevant change to /usr/src/release/Makefile. It's potentially not benign in the case where there is a mouse on the first serial port, or there exists some other situation where either attempting to read from the port returns garbage or writing to it causes a problem. In the proposed application, these seem like highly unlikely situations. I wouldn't suggest making -D the default for the general case though. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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