do not have these device special files. Where this previously failed
quietly, it now emits annoying but complete messages at best and
incomprehensible prefixes on average. During all of October, this is
a string of 16 O's, as in:
:
Starting inetd.
Sun Oct 17 15:09:09 PDT 2004
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
FreeBSD/ia64 (itanium.pn.xcllnt.net) (ttyu2)
login:
dcons(4): very simple console and gdb port driver
dcons_crom(4): FireWire attachment
dconschat(8): User interface to dcons
Tested with: i386, i386-PAE, and sparc64.
device special files created by sio(4). The latter are the device
special files created by uart(4). As of this moment sio(4) is not
supported on ia64... by me, that is :-)