uart(4) on stable/7

2009-10-26 Thread Matthew Fleming
I am interested in using uart(4) instead of sio(4) on stable/7, to ease our eventual transition to stable/8 or CURRENT. I added device uart and changed up /boot/device.hints (there were no entries in /etc/ttys that mentioned sio), and I get something that boots and has messages on the console, up

Re: uart(4) on stable/7

2009-10-26 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 02:57:42PM -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote: I am interested in using uart(4) instead of sio(4) on stable/7, to ease our eventual transition to stable/8 or CURRENT. I added device uart and changed up /boot/device.hints (there were no entries in /etc/ttys that mentioned

Re: uart(4) on stable/7

2009-10-26 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Matthew Fleming wrote: I can ssh to my box, echo to /dev/console appears on the console; messages on reboot appear on the console, just not the login prompt. Does anyone know what else I may be missing to use uart(4)? As Andrew pointed put, you need to update