Subject: Re: KA630 ROM routine console I/O support in boot and standalone tools
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/14/1998 14:32:24
Boris Gjenero wrote:
> 
> David Evans wrote:
> > 
> >   Any chance that we could have a boot flag defined that would use the
> > serial console even if graphics hardware is installed?  Would make life
> 
> Well, you already have the mechanism that I mentioned for boot:  just
> send a break down the console line and the KA630 ROM will switch to the
> serial console.

  Right; I hadn't yet seen your post about this when I made the request.

> OTOH, if you want a separate mechanism, I suppose that can be done too. 
> When somebody tells me what bit can be used for this I can probably add
> the necessary code.  Of course then the ROM console I/O still goes to
> the graphics hardware and that might be a bit annoying.
> 

  I think that the above will work well.

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