From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 19 3:29:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF5B014E57; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 03:29:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:P+7Yw23J9pZK8o3OlAYrnoeEWRa4bJx+@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id TAA31804; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:28:52 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id TAA13980; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:33:09 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199907191033.TAA13980@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: hackers@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Cc: bde@freebsd.org, wpaul@freebsd.org, rnordier@freebsd.org, nik@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: 2nd draft: README.serial for handbook Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 19:33:08 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The second draft of the serial console section in the FreeBSD handbook is ready. It is available at the same URL as below. Please review and correct any technical, grammatical, or whatever errors. Thank you. Kazu >>From time to time people ask questions about the serial console. As >README.serial is buried deep inside the kernel source tree, it's almost >time to have a decent text on the serial console in our handbook. > >I am reformatting README.serial so that it can be included in our >handbook, and adding bits and pieces to clarify things. I haven't >finished it yet, but would like to have your comments now, so that we >can make it more informative and useful. > >I put up the HTML version in: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/serialconsole.html > >and the SGML version in: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/serial-console.sgml > >Please have a look and send me comments, corrections, additional >useful text, relevant pointers, etc. > >Some notes: > >- The text describes FreeBSD versions 3.0 and 3.1 or later. Version >3.0 doesn't have our new boot loader, so there is a note in the >introduction section about it. > >- Because there are many differences regarding the serial console >setup between 2.X systems and 3.X systems, I don't directly deal with >2.X systems in this text. > >- I am not a SGML expart ;-< formatting and links may be wrong. > >- Some sections are not yet finished :-) > >- The chapter number is arbitrary. When this text will be eventually >included in the handbook, I expect Nik will put it somewhere suitable >and give appropriate chapter number. > > >Thank you. > >Kazu > >PS: I don't subscribe to the doc ML. Please send mail to the hackers ML >or to me directly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message