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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