Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 18:04:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: consoles... Message-ID: <20010324180411.A7556@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241733350.93295-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:39:57PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241733350.93295-100000@beppo.feral.com>
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On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 05:39:57PM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> I sure wish I knew what happened here, but at some point past 4.2,
> /dev/console got broken for Alpha 8200s.
This past week, I committed a change that removed the getty off of the
console device, and put one on ttyd0. This was due to people saying they
were getting garbage on their consoles. I never saw this on my
Miata-MX5, or AS250. But others said they did. Andrew (and Mike Smith)
wasn't happy with the commit I made that put the getty on the console
device.
I liked having the getty on the console device, as you *always* had a
getty no matter what type of console you had, and no matter if you
changed the type of console post-install.
How does NetBSD/Alpha handle this? IIRC NetBSD/Sparc runs a getty on the
console device and things Just Work.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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