simple task to speed up booting

[Olivier Cochard-Labbé]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> I was testing at 115kbps, maybe at 9600 it would be significant.  I
> don't understand why anything these days is still defaulting to 9600.
> It's the 21st century, but we never got the George Jetson flying cars we
> were promised, and apparently we're never going to break loose from the
> standards set by accoustic-coupled modems.
>

Because 9600 is the maximum value supported by our boot0sio ?

>From sys/boot/i386/boot0/Makefile :

# Comm settings for boot0sio.
# Bit(s) Description
# 7-5    data rate (110,150,300,600,1200,2400,4800,9600 bps)