Serial configs on sparc64

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Tue Nov 23 12:41:14 PST 2004


Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 10:12 PM -0500 11/21/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
>> After the tty-renaming in the 6.x-current branch, should /etc/ttys
>> be changed something like:
>>
>> --- etc/ttys.orig       Sun Nov 21 21:56:12 2004
>> +++ etc/ttys    Sun Nov 21 21:46:41 2004
>> @@ -33,8 +33,8 @@
>>  console        none                            unknown off secure
>>  #
>>  screen "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
>> -ttya   "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.9600" cons25  on  secure
>> -ttyb   "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.9600" cons25  off secure
>> +ttyz0  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.9600" cons25  on  secure
>> +ttyz1  "/usr/libexec/getty 3wire.9600" cons25  off secure
>>  #
>>  #ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         cons25  on  secure
>>  # Virtual terminals
>>
>>
>> Making this change got rid of an error message that I had been
>> getting about ttya at system startup, and it also lets me log
>> in via the serial port once the system is up.
> 
> 
> Seeing the lack of any objections, I'll try to commit this change
> to 6.x-current sometime soon.  Probably over the long weekend.
> 

Are you using the zs or the uart driver?  Now that Marcel fixed
uart to handle the zs hardware in the U2 correctly, we might be able
to think about retiring the zs driver entirely.

Scott


More information about the freebsd-sparc64 mailing list