"Robert V. Baron" <rvb@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> Last weekend I built world and install a new kernel and booted.
> (My previous build was from 1/15.)  Obviously, a few things did
> not work when I booted and I had to MAKDEV wscons and mung the /etc/ttys
> file -- no big deal.  But is there any way that this could happen automatically
> for the niave user?  Perhaps the wsdevice could smash itself into the 
> cdevsw at the ttyv0 slot and then print out a warning if it were referenced
> thru that major.

What I did was make the first getty run on /dev/console (so it will
work with pccons, pcvt, wscons, and serial without a change) --
perhaps the default ttys file should do this as well?

It means the first vc is the "console" but since that's where kernel
messages go, this sorta fits.

--Michael