Re: Faking a Sun keyboard

Mouse <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:16:02 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>> Is there a way to fake the existence of a keyboard when booting
>> No need to fake the keyboard a sun will keep functioning without the
>> presence of a keyboard [...]
> I need to fake the keyboard to prevent OBP from taking over Serial
> Port A and turning it into the defacto console.  If I can fake the
> keyboard then I don't need to worry about it.

It might not be workable for your case for any of a number of reasons,
but, have you considered letting OBP go ahead and use serial port A for
console and then having the kernel always use screen-and-keyboard
console regardless of the OB console, thereby freeing ttya?

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