Subject: Re: 10th serial port
To: None <greywolf@starwolf.com>
From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/16/2000 07:35:18
Greywolf wrote
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> # I think we should avoid letters for true serial ports, letters have been
> # used for various pseudo-tty already (ttyp0, ttyv0, ttyE0, I think we
> # also have ttyC0 around).
> 
> ttyc0 != ttyC0.  That might get a mite confusing, but it seems reasonable
> to reserve tty00 - ttyff for hard-wired ports.
> 
> What's ttyC0, anyway?
> 
> # --
> # Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> # --

This is a serial port on NetBSD-alpha....

# AlphaStation NS16550 ("com") serial ports
ttyC0  "/usr/libexec/getty dte-115200" unknown off secure
ttyC1  "/usr/libexec/getty dte-19200"  unknown off secure

cheerio Berndt  
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