Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml

On Thursday 24 August 2006 15:42, Ceri Davies wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:20:47PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 24 August 2006 05:18, Ceri Davies wrote:
[ Forwarded from cvs-doc ]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 11:37:19PM +0000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
keramida 2006-08-23 23:37:19 UTC

FreeBSD doc repository

Modified files:
en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms chapter.sgml
Log:
Expand the section `Setting a Faster Serial Port Speed', to mention
ways to set the serial console speed without having to rebuild the
boot blocks. Note that for releases before 6.1, though, rebuilding
the boot blocks may be the only option.

On a related note, is the keyboard multiplexer now good enough for us to
ship a /boot.config containing '-P' on the installation images?

That's unrelated. -P only does a very simple check to see if a keyboard is
present. Many systems with only USB keyboards would fail the check and end
up sending their output to the serial console.

OK, I had thought that kdbmux would help here. Never mind.

We could use -D though, that
would let the user break into the loader and adjust console (or use boot -h)
to force sysinstall to use the serial console.

That smells new, or at least I have never noticed it before! It would
help me quiet some people who have complained about having to build
custom images to allow a serial installation by the sound of it, though.

It's old, kernel and boot2 have supported it for a long time, but
/boot/loader has only properly handled -D for the past year or so now.

--
John Baldwin
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