Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 17:54:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-20000307-CURRENT kern.flp keyboard probe questions Message-ID: <200003110154.RAA02626@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:45:33 CST." <4.3.2.20000310194350.00b698e0@207.227.119.2>
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> At 05:06 PM 3/10/00 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > >Note also that the probe-for-keyboard feature is only used on the > >installation media; it's not the default for system behaviour (yet). > > Hopefully that "yet" will be "never" so one can boot sans keyboard and > later hook one up if need be. Since you can't safely hot-plug the PC keyboard, that wouldn't be very smart. The only way to auto-detect the use of a serial console is to look for a keyboard; if one isn't plugged in, there's no local console, end of story. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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