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authornik <nik@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-28 20:28:54 +0000
committernik <nik@FreeBSD.org>1999-07-28 20:28:54 +0000
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Explicitly list the i/o addresses of the serial ports.
Prompted by docs/12343, in which people seemed to get a little confused. The original text in the file said: [...] # By default we use COM1 as our serial console port *if* we're going to use # a serial port as our console at all. (0x3E8 = COM2) # #BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8 [...] From what I can make out, some people have assumed that means that if they just uncomment the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT then it will use COM2: These same people then assume that "0x3F8" on that line is a typo for "0x3E8". What it actually means is that if you uncomment the line then the default stays as "Ox3F8" (COM1:), and that you have to uncomment the line, *and* change the value of the variable in order to use COM2:. So I've made that a little bit clearer. I've also listed the hex values for COM1: thru COM4:, snarfed from sys/isa/isareg.h. PR: docs/12343 Submitted by: Bill Grunfelder <wjgrun@dippy.cyberwar.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/examples/etc/make.conf6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/examples/etc/make.conf b/share/examples/etc/make.conf
index 6387d85..c6c3c7d 100644
--- a/share/examples/etc/make.conf
+++ b/share/examples/etc/make.conf
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $Id: make.conf,v 1.80 1999/06/01 02:55:42 billf Exp $
+# $Id: make.conf,v 1.81 1999/06/04 03:17:04 billf Exp $
#
# This file, if present, will be read by make (see /usr/share/mk/sys.mk).
# It allows you to override macro definitions to make without changing
@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@
# serial port in addition to or instead of the keyboard/video console.
#
# By default we use COM1 as our serial console port *if* we're going to use
-# a serial port as our console at all. (0x3E8 = COM2)
+# a serial port as our console at all. Alter as necessary.
+#
+# COM1: = 0x3F8, COM2: = 0x2F8, COM3: = 0x3E8, COM4: = 0x2E8
#
#BOOT_COMCONSOLE_PORT= 0x3F8
#
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