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authorsimokawa <simokawa@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-28 01:31:50 +0000
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@@ -46,17 +46,13 @@ an allocated buffer for input and output respectivly.
It is no use by itself and it is supposed that the buffer is accessed
via a bus like
.Xr FireWire 4
+or
+.Xr kvm 3
for interaction.
.Pp
The buffer consists of 4 channels.
There are 2 ports, one for console tty and other is GDB ports then each port
has a input channel and a output channel.
-The physical address of the buffer is sometimes neccesary to acess the buffer.
-You can get the address by
-.Xr sysctl 8
-or
-.Xr dmesg 8
-.
.Sh EXAMPLE
If you want to run
.Xr getty 8
@@ -71,38 +67,26 @@ using
dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
.Ed
.Pp
-You can use either of the following commands to obtain physical
-address of the buffer.
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-% sysctl kern.dcons.paddr
-kern.dcons.paddr: 4732704
-% dmesg | grep dcons: | tail -1
-dcons: virtual 0xc0483720 physical 0x483720 quad 0x120dc8
-.Ed
-.Pp
-In this example, the buffer is located at 4732704 in decimal
-and 0x483720 in hex.
-.Pp
Once
.Xr fwochi 4
device is initialized to allow physical access,
the buffer can be accessed from another host via FireWire bus using
-.Xr fwchat 8
+.Xr dconschat 8
application. See
-.Xr fwchat 8
+.Xr dconschat 8
for more details.
.Pp
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
.It Pa /dev/dcons
-.It Pa /dev/dconsctl
.It Pa /etc/ttys
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr dcons_crom 4 ,
.Xr ddb 4 ,
.Xr firewire 4 ,
.Xr fwohci 4 ,
-.Xr fwchat 8 ,
+.Xr dconschat 8 ,
.Xr fwcontrol 8 ,
.Xr ttys 5
.Sh AUTHORS
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