From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 19:42:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D5CD16A4DE; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:42:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-0-0-cust107.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.104.168.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E2443D73; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:42:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GGL5o-000L4h-P6; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:42:20 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:42:20 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20060824194220.GA59229@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , John Baldwin , stable@freebsd.org References: <200608232337.k7NNbJT8032059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20060824091852.GE66037@submonkey.net> <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608241520.47903.jhb@freebsd.org> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:42:25 -0000 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote: > > [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] > >=20 > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > >=20 > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > >=20 > > > Modified files: > > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml=20 > > > 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. > >=20 > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images? >=20 > That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard = is=20 > present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and e= nd=20 > up sending their output to the serial console. OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here. Never mind. > We could use -D though, that=20 > would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot = -h)=20 > to force sysinstall to use the serial console. That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before! It would help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though. Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE7gEcocfcwTS3JF8RAmTPAKCtyimYryo/1Vmq2GBEIL6FjTxlRgCgyg/G Z+7kYI83mw72nv0aM50O+E4= =EzJn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--