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>Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> writes:
>>     Others can't be considered global by any stretch of the imagination:
>>     TOP_TABLE_SIZE, SUP, etc...
>
>...and the COMCONSOLE stuff, which should go in the kernel
>configuration file.

Well. I think not.

The serial console related variables in /etc/make.conf such as
BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT and BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED, and another variable
related to boot behavior, BOOTWAIT, cannot be moved to kernel
configuration file, because they are meant for compilation of the boot
block rather than the kernel.

You need to tell both the boot block and the kernel that you want to
have a serial console, in the current implementation.

/etc/make.conf may not be the best place for these variables, but the
kernel configuration file is definitely not the place for them.

Kazu