Multiple console support for loader(8)
David O'Brien
obrien at freebsd.org
Fri Apr 30 14:21:31 PDT 2004
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 04:03:34PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/bootmulti.diff contails patches to
> support multiple consoles in the loader, and allows a single -D option
> in /boot.config to give dual console support to the bootblocks, the
> loader and the kernel.
>
> Before I go ahead and tidy the patches up, document the changes and code
> the non-i386 parts, is this something that is wanted?
Why are there non-i386 parts? (well s/non-i386/non-i386 & non-amd64).
Sparcs and Alphas both DTRT with serial consoles.
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