[Thus spake Manuel Bouyer ("MB: ") 12:46pm...]

MB: > > But I'm not sure the keyboard is functionnal if no screen is connected.
MB: > > On sparc, if the POST doesn't detect a keyboard or a screen, it switches
MB: > > to serial port A automatically.
MB: >
MB: >
MB: > On my SS4 the critical bit seems to be the keyboard.  It cares not
MB: > whether
MB: > or not the screen is actually attached.
MB:
MB: It probably depends on the openfirware version, and maybe prom settings.

It doesn't care if the screen is attached -- it assumes that if there is
a framebuffer present, you have a screen.  And of course, if the KB is
plugged in, you have a KB.

If it doesn't find a KB, it's not going to use the screen unless you
explicitly tell it

	input-device=ttya
	output-device=screen

and I'm not even sure how reliable that would be...

[we had a reverse setup, i.e. input-device=keyboard output-device=ttya
at a workplace in one of my previous lives.]

				--*greywolf;
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System V any flavor: just say NO!