Ceri Davies
2006-Aug-24 09:18 UTC
cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml
[ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:> keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > FreeBSD doc repository > > Modified files: > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml > Log: > Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention > ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the > boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding > the boot blocks may be the only option.On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images? Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20060824/54e75b5c/attachment.pgp
John Baldwin
2006-Aug-24 19:33 UTC
cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml
On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote:> [ Forwarded from cvs-doc ] > > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC > > > > FreeBSD doc repository > > > > Modified files: > > en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml > > Log: > > Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention > > ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the > > boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding > > the boot blocks may be the only option. > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images?That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end up sending their output to the serial console. We could use -D though, that would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h) to force sysinstall to use the serial console. -- John Baldwin
Giorgos Keramidas
2006-Aug-25 18:30 UTC
cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml
On 2006-08-24 10:18, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:>On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC >> >> FreeBSD doc repository >> >> Modified files: >> en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml >> Log: >> Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention >> ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the >> boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding >> the boot blocks may be the only option. > > On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to > ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images?Not sure. I think I have heard of problems when kbdmux is used with systems that only have a USB keyboard, but I am not sure if this change would affect the same users.