Subject: Re: ADB quirks
To: None <nigel@ind.tansu.com.au>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/18/1998 17:56:21
nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> ...
> > 3) The ROM based (MRG) ADB driver unconditionally disables the adb device
> > if you boot with serial console -- no local X server. I can see situations
> > where this comes in handy, but please make it an option (for the booter?).
> 
> 
> 	If I read Hauke correctly, he wants an environment variable passed
> from the Booter which would disable the ADB devices.
> 
> 
> 	I can easily do that, but someone else will have to make the change
> to the ADB driver (or it it earlier on in the kernel?) so that it looks for
> a new environment variable (say DISABLE_ADB) instead of SERIALCONSOLE. 

That can easily be done.  I'm pretty sure the serial console thing is in
the ADB driver.  I can check when I go home tonight, tho.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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