tty changes and GENERIC

Ken Smith kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU
Fri Nov 12 05:02:21 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:26:14PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Ken Smith wrote:
> >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'.
> 
> Do you happen to use ofw_console(4)?

Duh.  Thanks.  Yes.  Machines fly all over the place around here,
leaving their EEPROM settings as-is and relying on absence of the
keyboard to tell the PROM it should use the serial port is by far
the least painful way to deal with it.

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						Ken Smith
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