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Hello,

On Feb 8, 2007, at 07:44, Julian Coleman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've run into a problem trying to get wscons to work on a old sun-4, 
> because
> of the order in which devices attach.  On newer sparc and sparc64 
> machines,
> zs* and zstty* attach before the frame buffers but on this sun-4, the 
> frame
> buffer attaches first.
>
> The reason that the ordering causes a problem is because both the 
> zstty code
> and the wscons code set cn_tab->cn_dev.  If the frame buffer (and 
> wsdisplay)
> attach last, then cn_tab->cn_dev is set to the wscons device and all 
> is fine.
> However, if the zstty's attach last, then cn_tab->cn_dev is set to the 
> zstty
> device, and console input/output is broken (the rest of the code is 
> assuming
> wscons).

Err, zstty does that even if it's not the console? I'd call that a bug.

have fun
Michael
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