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| author | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-10-10 19:23:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Kenneth R Westerback <krw@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-10-10 19:23:07 +0000 |
| commit | 241074e6cbef39c171c8cfdb2e78d92f50198542 (patch) | |
| tree | 82003ea86809f5c1a11d1430f93fd5eb65ac7c67 | |
| parent | 9cd145bb265061a6bc19aad4b408e4f42cd98eba (diff) | |
Provide some verbiage about MDSERIAL. Suggested by miod@.
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/miniroot/install.sub | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/miniroot/install.sub b/distrib/miniroot/install.sub index 20f4aadc6e4..b6a6e038924 100644 --- a/distrib/miniroot/install.sub +++ b/distrib/miniroot/install.sub @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: install.sub,v 1.391 2005/10/05 02:07:27 krw Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: install.sub,v 1.392 2005/10/10 19:23:06 krw Exp $ # $NetBSD: install.sub,v 1.5.2.8 1996/09/02 23:25:02 pk Exp $ # # Copyright (c) 1997-2005 Todd Miller, Theo de Raadt, Ken Westerback @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ # MDDKDEVS - '/^[sw]d[0-9][0-9]* /s/ .*//p' assumed if not provided # MDCDDEVS - '/^cd[0-9][0-9]* /s/ .*//p' assumed if not provided # MDMTDEVS - '/^[cmsw]t[0-9][0-9]* /s/ .*//p' +# MDSERIAL - offer to configure a serial console # MDXAPERTURE - set machdep.allowaperture=value in sysctl.conf . install.md @@ -179,6 +180,15 @@ get_ifdevs() { } # Get the first (lowest unit #) serial device if any, if MDSERIAL is set. +# +# MDSERIAL is of the form +# +# "<dmesg device prefix> <boot loader device prefix> <tty device prefix>" +# +# So "pccom com tty0" means the dmesg is searched for devices pccom0, pccom1, +# ... pccom9. If pccom2 is found, then com2 and tty02 are used in serial +# console configuration via boot.conf commands and /etc/ttys. +# # NOTE: Only single digit serial devices (<dev>0 -> <dev>9) are looked for. get_serialdev() { local _d _bd _td |