Subject: Re: How to change serial baud rate on already installed bootblocks (netbsd-3-0-RELEASE)
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/04/2007 23:10:10
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 01:52:39PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:12:22PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> >
> > I bet there is a bound check on the value that comes from the
> > boot parameters somewhere.
>
> That would make sense -- the bootblocks are naive about the type of
> serial port, and a real 8250 will not actually work at 115200bps, as
> I recall.
>
> I do run several machines' serial consoles at 57600 and it works.
I have some i386 at 115200 and they works too ...
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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