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Re: More serial ports in EFI bootstrap?



> Another approach would be to use ucom0 as console once it is
> attached.  How feasible would it be to swap the console during kernel
> bootstrap?

In 5.2 and earlier, this happened routinely on some ports; for example,
NetBSD/sparc would start up using the OBP output and then, once the
console device (framebuffer or serial port, depending on the console
setting) got attached, would switch to using it.  I would assume it
still does, but I don't actually know; I haven't used post-5.2 on
anything but amd64.

Maybe looking at what they did would be useful?

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