From owner-cvs-all Sat Aug 29 08:41:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06131 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:41:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA06120 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@backplane.com) Received: (dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.8.8/8.6.5) id IAA24852; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:40:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 08:40:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199808291540.IAA24852@apollo.backplane.com> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: make.conf Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Umm... I didn't say that putting it in the kernel config would magically work, I said that it probably ought to go into the kernel config (the implication being that the kernel config should cover portions of the bootstrap code rather then make.conf). -Matt :>...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 : : Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet Communications (Please include original email in any response)