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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:20:47 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml
Message-ID:  <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060824091852.GE66037@submonkey.net>
References:  <200608232337.k7NNbJT8032059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060824091852.GE66037@submonkey.net>

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On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote:
> [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ]
> 
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > keramida    2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC
> > 
> >   FreeBSD doc repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml 
> >   Log:
> >   Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention
> >   ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the
> >   boot blocks.  Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding
> >   the boot blocks may be the only option.
> 
> On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to
> ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images?

That's unrelated.  -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is 
present.  Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end 
up sending their output to the serial console.  We could use -D though, that 
would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h) 
to force sysinstall to use the serial console.

-- 
John Baldwin



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