Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:15:44 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot manager beep (revisited) Message-ID: <20060501101544.GA51137@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <4455D576.2020000@dial.pipex.com> References: <445581DE.50901@centtech.com> <20060501052755.GA88897@gothmog.pc> <4455D576.2020000@dial.pipex.com>
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On 2006-05-01 10:31, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2006-04-30 22:34, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote: >>> This thread: >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html >>> >>> mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also >>> discusses having it optional. >> >> Does something like the following sound reasonable (I haven't >> had a chance to run this through a build-test, so use with >> care). The default behavior should be to *include* a beep, >> but it can be turned off by setting WITHOUT_BOOTEASY_BEEP in >> `/etc/src.conf'. > > I have a very similar patch which I pulled from somewhere not > long after switching to 5.4. That wrapped the beep inside > #ifdef SIO (which I assumed was something standard, but don't > know) so that you got a beep with a serial console and not > without. > > I can see the advantage of the beep when running headless, but > for anything with a console the beep just seems like something > out of the 1970s. My vote (fwiw) would be to reverse the logic > and have WITH_BOOTEASY_BEEP so that it's off by default unless > you turn it on with the option *or* if you have a serial > console (assuming that SIO is something standard). I'd certainly prefer it if the beep was turned *off* by default, but I'm not sure if that's what everyone prefers. This is why I opted for keeping the current behavior and making my personal preference an option :)
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