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authorEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2023-08-15 22:42:22 +0000
committerEd Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>2023-08-15 22:45:58 +0000
commit34d55be0747ba4452f9611ca88fe21e9d94be266 (patch)
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parenteac761e967b34066aa7183474249df87d79a2f32 (diff)
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boot0: add a note about BIOS-supported serial rates
We plan to increase the default serial rate to 115200 (see review D36295) but early boot components that use BIOS interfaces do not support higher rates. Add a note to that effect. Reported by: imp Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Diffstat (limited to 'stand/i386')
-rw-r--r--stand/i386/boot0/Makefile2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile b/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
index 5e82d7b6ae67..83eee46dfd11 100644
--- a/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
+++ b/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ ORG= 0x600
# 2 stop bits (set = 2, clear = 1)
# 1-0 data bits (00 = 5, 01 = 6, 10 = 7, 11 = 8)
.if !defined(BOOT_BOOT0_COMCONSOLE_SPEED)
-BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED?= 9600
+BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED?= 9600 # BIOS interfaces do not support higher rates.
.if ${BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED} == 9600
BOOT_BOOT0_COMCONSOLE_SPEED= "7 << 5 + 3"
.elif ${BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED} == 4800