Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Dan Mick wrote:
>> Nicolas Williams wrote:
>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 06:55:19PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore - sun
>>> microsystems wrote:
>>>> Grub has been modified to read and use the information in SPCR. A new
>>>> keyword $CONSOLE is added for use on the kernel$ boot line in menu.lst;
>>>> it will expand to properties which select either the appropriate serial
>>>> port and mode (for example,
>>>> "console=ttya,ttya-mode=19200,8,n,1,-,ttya-ignore-cd=true") or the
>>>> normal text or graphics console ("console=text" or "console=graphics")
>>>> as the Solaris release requires. (Currently Nevada uses text,
>>>> OpenSolaris uses graphics.) A typical use in menu.lst would look
>>>> like:
>>>>
>>>> kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS,$CONSOLE
>>>
>>> How will grub know whether to expand $CONSOLE to console=text or
>>> console=graphics? Will grub be built differently for Nevada and
>>> OpenSolaris?
>>
>> Yes, if the OpenSolaris transition hasn't taken over by the time of
>> putback.
>
> OpenSolaris doesn't recompile anything right now... why would we
> remove functionality such that this would have to change?
Don't know what you mean by remove. The alternative choice of "text" or
"graphics" is dictated by the default of the particular flavor of boot
in the distro we're constructing. Right now, OpenSolaris and Nevada
differ in their defaults. When Nevada-or-what-it-becomes changes
default, then so will this. That might be pre-push.
> How does this interact w/ the VESA console project?
I'm talking with Jan and Enrico; as far as I can see, that project
changes how 'console=graphics' is implemented, but not that it is. In
the case of "SPCR indicates serial", VESA mode will also be disabled
just as 'VGA graphics' is disabled in the current prototype.
