Dell PE3250 + FreeBSD 5.2.1

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Mon May 3 08:00:48 PDT 2004


On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:34:50PM +0530, Muthu_T at Dell.com wrote:
> 
> BTW, what needs to be done to use the standard console screen instead of
> serialconsole
> For FreeBSD-IA64? 

Our console code is old and contains assumptions that only hold on PCs
or when the chipset has compatibility for it. Since a lot of machines
are based on the HP zx1 chipset, enabling the console by default is
not a good idea.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


More information about the freebsd-ia64 mailing list