Subject: Re: Serial console?
To: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/11/1997 15:23:19
On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:16:29 +0100 
 Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote:

 > Running V1.2, is there some way to go the console output to /dev/tty00? With
 > the amiga-port, i can set "options SERCONSOLE 1" or so, and i can watch the
 > whole kernel-probing etc. on /dev/tty00.
 > 
 > I didn't find this option in arch/i386... am i missing something here, or
 > does'nt it work?

On the i386 port:

options		COMCONCOLE		# forces serial console
options		CONADDR=0x3f8		# i/o address of serial port
options		CONUNIT=0		# it will be this com0 <- unit
options		CONSPEED=9600		# speed of serial port

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