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From: Mercier, Yannick (CA - Montreal) (ymercierdeloitte.ca)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 14:11:24 CDT

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    Do you know what the CONUNIT options stands for ?
    Does that mean I could have more than one console device ? (because I
    presume it stands for Console Unit)

    thanks for that hint, would have been difficult to find ...

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Todd C. Miller [mailto:Todd.Millercourtesan.com]
    Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:15 PM
    To: Michael C. Ibarra
    Cc: Mercier, Yannick (CA - Montreal); miscopenbsd.org
    Subject: Re: serial console

    In message <1020363157.3cd18195bd333webmail.hawk.com>
            so spake "Michael C. Ibarra" (ibarra):

    > Quoting "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Millercourtesan.com>:
    >
    >
    > > > Is it possible to use com1 ?
    > >
    > > Yes, but you need to build a custom kernel with the following options:
    > >
    > > option CONUNIT 1
    > > option CONADDR 0x2f8
    >
    > Are you certain of this? I've never seen these options in obsd.

    You'll find them in /sys/dev/ic/comreg.h. They are not documented
    anywhere...

     - todd