In message <20000118223838.J21588@fundy.ca>David Maxwell writes
>On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:45:46PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:

[snip lots -- yes, I'm talking about current, thats why I said 1.4P]

>> In fact, given the funky "bios-console-redirect" feature, what would
>> be *realy* cool is to have kernel console output go to both serial
>> port and the graphics card (if present),a nd to accept input from
>> either keyboard or serial. That'd be wonderful--that's what the BIOS
>> does.  I can try and find time in Feburary to code that, if we can
>> agree on how.
>
>I suspect the performance hit of convincing the NetBSD kernel to
>write all console output via the BIOS would be pretty significant.

Who said anything about the BIOS? I'm talking about some kind of
driver shim which sends writes to /dev/console to wscons *and* to the
serial port (the easy part), and which accepts input from either the
serial port or the pckbd.