From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 19 11:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA08792 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:21:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-111.camalott.com [208.229.74.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA08785 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:21:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA05282; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 13:20:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: "D. Rock" Cc: Robert Nordier , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader & comconsole References: <199811190902.LAA03790@ceia.nordier.com> <3653F2AA.D3A7CA29@cs.uni-sb.de> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 19 Nov 1998 13:20:17 -0600 In-Reply-To: "D. Rock"'s message of "Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:27:54 +0100" Message-ID: <86g1bfh4lq.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Using the BIOS for configuring the serial ports gives you also only > 9600 bps. I usually ran the comconsole at 19200 bps. But the original > BIOS int 0x14 services seem only support up to 9600 bps. I did a > small patch on the bootblocks, so that it uses the "extended communication > port control" service. I don't know if good ole 386 BIOS implement this > routine, but it works on my machine (I think it was introduced with the > PS/2 PCs). It was introduced with the PS/2, but was not implemented on many clones for many years after that. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message