freebsd-ports/devel/dcons/pkg-message
Norikatsu Shigemura b903fee294 Add dcons-20030525, is Dumb CONSole device driver.
Order by:-)	simokawa
Submitted by:	simokawa
2003-06-08 08:02:10 +00:00

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Though dcons(4) is loaded as a modules by default in this port,
I recommend you to link it to kernel statically for several
reasons especially when used with gdb.
On -current, thanks to multiple console device support(conscontrol(8)),
we can use both syscons(4) and dcons(4) as console and DDB port at the
same time.
On -stable, because only one console device is allowed, we have to
hijack the console port from syscons(4) to use dcons(4) as the
console. (Define FORCE_CONSOLE to 1 in dcons.c for this.) Even it
is not used as console, it can still be used as GDB(not DDB) port.
See %%DOCSDIR%%/README.dcons and manpage of dcons(4)
and fwchat(8) for details.