I'm using a Spiderport for a console on a sun4/300.
	The sun starts up sending out data without parity, but right at the
	end of the kernel startup (probably about the time init is run) it
	switches to even parity automatically. My gettytab specifies no
	parity, so when getty is run I get my console sane again, but if I
	go into single user mode it loses :(

	The spider port is a picky device - it must have either 7bit + parity
	or 8bit, and will drop invalid characters. (Did I say I was running
	all this in a screen session in an xterm - ok, so it gets worse).

	All this aside - I dont see why the kernel screws around with the 
	parity at the end of its startup... if it was right to start with
	then it should be left alone?!

	Am I making sense here or is it just too late & I should be going 
	home? :) And if I am making sense, how do I stop the kernel from
	switching that parity, and should the default be changed to that?

		Thanks
				David

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