freebsd stable - Aug 2006 - 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
-- 
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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

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.