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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 1996 21:48:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: COMCONSOLE speed
Message-ID:  <199604051948.VAA00904@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604051837.EAA18526@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 6, 96 04:37:30 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> >> Back to the subject: Bruce, wouldn't it be a good idea to only handle
> >> the comconsole speed in the bootstrap, and pass the settings down to
> >> the kernel via the `struct bootinfo'?
> 
> They should be passed if they can be set there.  There is no room to set
> set them there :-).

It will have to be patched into the bootblock anyway.  Otherwise you'd
run into a chicken-and-egg problem, unless you're going to implement
such a crock as the ``Press BREAK for next speed'' model.

Passing it down from the bootstrap would centralize the location to
modify to just one however.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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