Firewire blues

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

On Fri, 18.02.2005 at 23:18:50 -0500, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> Strange - are you sure that you have not accidentally have
> options         DCONS_FORCE_CONSOLE=1
> in your config file?
> ( Or forgot to config or make depend after removing it?)

I made a new kernel (make kernel) and since I never set such an option
anywhere, I'm pretty confident, that it's at its default value.

> There is a tunable hidden in dcons_crom that causes the dcons console to
> be selected.
> 
> Try adding boot_multicons and hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console to
> /boot/loader.conf:
> boot_multicons="YES"
> hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console=0

Thank you! That worked, I still am running the kernel with the change
you mentioned earlier, though.

I noticed this in dcons_crom.c
#if __FreeBSD_version >= 500000
static int force_console = 1;
TUNABLE_INT("hw.firewire.dcons_crom.force_console", &force_console);
#endif

Which to me looks like the default is to force the console, even if
NOTES has this default
./conf/NOTES:options    DCONS_FORCE_CONSOLE=0   # force to be the primary console

Anyway, let's turn on ULE and PREEMPTION and see what happens :)

Ulrich Spoerlein
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