tty changes and GENERIC

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Thu Nov 11 20:33:39 PST 2004


Given the changes in the tty infrastructure lately does anyone know
of a reason to not do this:

Index: sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC,v
retrieving revision 1.83
diff -u -r1.83 GENERIC
--- sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC	2 Nov 2004 20:57:20 -0000	1.83
+++ sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC	12 Nov 2004 04:27:42 -0000
@@ -130,10 +130,10 @@
 device		"mk48txx"	# Mostek MK48T02, MK48T08, MK48T59 clock
 
 # Serial (COM) ports
-device		sab		# Siemens SAB82532 based serial ports
-device		zs		# Zilog 8530 based serial ports
-#device		uart		# Multi-uart driver
-#device		puc		# Multi-channel uarts
+#device		sab		# Siemens SAB82532 based serial ports
+#device		zs		# Zilog 8530 based serial ports
+device		uart		# Multi-uart driver
+device		puc		# Multi-channel uarts
 
 # Parallel port
 #device		ppc


At least on the set of machines I have access to uart seems to be
the tty driver that's finding the ports.  My serial console port
is coming up as '/dev/screen'.

Thanks...

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						Ken Smith
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