Hello everyone.

I have updated my NetBSD installation on my Soekris 4801 and I'm
building a custom kernel (GENERIC + ALTQ, I mainly add ALTQ and
force console on the Soekris COM1 port, nothing else).

In the GENERIC config file, the default CONSDEVNAME when forcing
the defautl console is set to address 0x2f8.

On all i386 machines I have, the first COM port seems to be set
to address 0x3f8 so I would like to know why in the GENERIC file
it is set to 0x2f8 per default.

I use this :

options         CONSDEVNAME="\"com\"",CONADDR=0x3f8,CONSPEED=9600
options         CONS_OVERRIDE   # Always use above! independent of boot info

Are there machines which use 0x2f8 or some reason why it starts at
0x2f8 ?

Thanks,

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