Re: boot2/loader: serial port handling

From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko_at_ambrisko.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:48:33 -0700
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:13:47PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
| On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Xin Li <delphij_at_delphij.net> wrote:
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| > Ah I wish I am not this far behind my email backlog.  Yes I think
| > these (241300 and 241301) will solve the problem.
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|     Yeah -- forgot about the other one. There's another enhancement
| that would make this even better (apart from maybe having multiple
| primary consoles): setting the primary console if present and having
| fallbacks in the event that the original primary wasn't set or
| configurable; it was a thing that was present in another project I
| worked on with sio that was pretty slick (and I think that there would
| be some parties who wouldn't mind if the same was done with uart(4)).

This concept was objected to when I checked it into sio(4) so I had
to back it out.  Some liked it.  I have ported it to uart(4) since we
need that functionality when we moved to a newer FreeBSD.

Doug A.
Received on Thu Oct 18 2012 - 19:48:33 UTC

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