Re: vax wscons setting questions
Johnny Billquist <[email protected]>
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On 2024-02-04 15:35, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Den 2024-02-04 kl. 15:25, skrev Hans Rosenfeld:
>>>>> change wscons tty names to ttyE* to avoid clashes with the pty namespace
>>> I think we no longer use pty in /dev (using ptyfs instead)
>>> so there is no conflict, but I wonder if it's worth for vax
>>> to use ttyE[0-7] for wscons in ttys(5) and remove "vt0" target
>>> for ttyw[0-7] from MAKEDEV.
>> I don't know what VAX model you're using, but my 4k90 uses ttyE[0-7] for
>> wscons. All ttyw[0-7] are commented out in /etc/ttys, but then there's a
>> comment above those indicating they are for VAXstation 3100
>> framebuffers?
> You must have done that yourself then, because MAKEDEV.conf says ttyE is
> dmf32 :-)
I was going to say something similar. I definitely remembered that ttyE
was for some serial, but didn't have time to even find which one before
I saw your comment here. :-)
Update's 8650 is now in storage, but that one actually have a DMF32.
Johnny
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