cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

[Ceri Davies]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> 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.

OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here.  Never mind.

> 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.

That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before!  It would
help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build
custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though.

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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