HEADSUP [alpha]: New console initialization

[Sten Spans]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Gang,
>
> The console initialization on alpha has been reworked to not require
> the many alpha specific kluges in the various drivers (gfb, sio and
> syscons). Consequently, one now needs the well-known hints that one
> needs on other platforms for things to work. In particular, you might
> want to add:
> 	hint.sio.0.flags="0x10"
> 	hint.sio.1.flags="0x80"
>
> Without these hints you won't have a serial console.

Cool, nice to see that this problem area is getting better.
Has this code been tested ? If so I'll try building a current
kernel on my ds10.

-- 
Sten Spans

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