On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 05:29:09PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > At one time I was working on patches to the loader to make the console > speed configurable. At the time, at least, I didn't see any evidence > that the settings were stored in the boot0 block, but maybe I was wrong. > In any case, finishing this up is on my TODO list.
I was trying to make the boot process 100% independent of the VGA console at one stage. To the best of my knowledge, boot0 doesn't know anything about serial, unless someone's using my boot0sio hack (which I haven't committed, btw; it was very specific - you have only 512 bytes to play with in the MBR, and I understand people had problems with jhb's 1024 byte boot0). boot2 is probably the more interesting part, it does make assumptions if BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED wasn't specified in the make, and loader takes its cue from that up until it sees 'console' in loader.conf[.local]. One of the limitations here is that there can only be one console. Anything else would be something of a hack to get boot2 and loader to tee their output to two independent devices. BMS _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
