svn commit: r268946 - stable/10/share/man/man4
Ed Maste
emaste at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jul 21 16:21:18 UTC 2014
Author: emaste
Date: Mon Jul 21 16:21:17 2014
New Revision: 268946
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/268946
Log:
MFC syscons(4) man page updates:
r268050: Add a vt(4) cross reference to syscons(4)
r268169: Clarify the setting of syscons driver flags
Submitted by: wblock
r268215: Describe kern.vty sc/vt tunable in syscons(4)
Reviewed by: wblock
Modified:
stable/10/share/man/man4/syscons.4
Directory Properties:
stable/10/ (props changed)
Modified: stable/10/share/man/man4/syscons.4
==============================================================================
--- stable/10/share/man/man4/syscons.4 Mon Jul 21 15:44:59 2014 (r268945)
+++ stable/10/share/man/man4/syscons.4 Mon Jul 21 16:21:17 2014 (r268946)
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd September 11, 2009
+.Dd July 21, 2014
.Dt SYSCONS 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ In
.Pa /boot/device.hints :
.Cd hint.sc.0.at="isa"
.Cd hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x103
+.Pp
+In
+.Pa /boot/loader.conf :
+.Cd kern.vty=sc
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
@@ -403,7 +407,9 @@ option too.
The following driver flags can be used to control the
.Nm
driver.
-They can be set either in
+Driver flags can be set with the
+.Cd hint.sc.0.flags
+tunable, either in
.Pa /boot/device.hints ,
or else at the loader prompt (see
.Xr loader 8 ) .
@@ -446,6 +452,26 @@ This option instructs the syscons driver
for a keyboard device if it is not currently attached to one.
Otherwise, the driver only probes for a keyboard once during bootup.
.El
+.Ss Loader Tunables
+These settings can be entered at the
+.Xr loader 8
+prompt or in
+.Xr loader.conf 5 .
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Va kern.vty
+When both
+.Nm
+and
+.Xr vt 4
+have been compiled into the kernel, the one to use for the system console can
+be selected by setting this variable to
+.Ql sc
+or
+.Ql vt .
+If not set,
+.Nm
+provides the default system console.
+.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/syscons/xxxxyyyyzzz -compact
.It Pa /dev/console
@@ -533,6 +559,7 @@ to the kernel.
.Xr splash 4 ,
.Xr ukbd 4 ,
.Xr vga 4 ,
+.Xr vt 4 ,
.Xr kbdmap 5 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
.Xr ttys 5 ,
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