On 12/09/2013 05:53, Michael Sierchio wrote: > Because I build a lot of embedded devices with serial consoles, I was in > the habit of hacking /boot/loader by commenting out a line in a Makefile > that enables terminal emulation > > /sys/boot/i386/libi386/Makefile: > > #CFLAGS+= -DTERM_EMU > > and then in /sys/boot doing a make clean && make > > unfortunately, with 9.X, this breaks the compile. It seems a dependency > was introduced which requires the videoconsole code. I find this extremely > irritating. Of course, there's nothing to stop me (at the moment) from > compiling loader under 8-STABLE and installing it on 9.1 machines, but... > > Is there a better way now to stop the cursor from scribbling illegibly > across the screen?
Hmmm... normally you should be controlling build options by setting
WITH_FOO style flags in /etc/src.conf, although I can't see anything
obviously relevant in src.conf(5).
Did you raise a PR about this? Requesting a means to have a loader that
only works via a serial console sounds like something that should be
supported.
Cheers,
Matthew
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