From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Dec 21 19: 0:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gizmo.internode.com.au (gizmo.internode.com.au [192.83.231.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8831B14D77; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 19:00:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from newton@gizmo.internode.com.au) Received: (from newton@localhost) by gizmo.internode.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA13615; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:30:15 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from newton) Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:30:15 +1030 From: Mark Newton To: Mike Smith Cc: Justin Hawkins , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem Message-ID: <19991222133015.B13504@internode.com.au> References: <199912220138.RAA04766@mass.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <199912220138.RAA04766@mass.cdrom.com> X-PGP-Key: http://www.on.net/~newton/pgpkey.txt Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 05:38:35PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > Hmm, last time I checked, they were just 'serial ports'. > > Nope. The significance is determined by the software, and you're stuck > with the fact that the first serial port is the console port. End of > story. (Note: if we don't make some assumption about which port will be > the console, how do you expect the software to work out which one it > "should" use?) Insist that consoles be cabled-in with "real" cables, and use the first port we find with DCD asserted as the console, falling back to COM1 if we can't find any ports with DCD (indicating that someone has failed to follow our cabling insistence) - mark -- Mark Newton Email: newton@internode.com.au (W) Network Engineer Email: newton@atdot.dotat.org (H) Internode Systems Pty Ltd Desk: +61-8-82232999 "Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton" Mobile: +61-416-202-223 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message