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 :-)
All functionality from the previous system has been preserved, and
users should still customize their system boot with the familiar
methods, rc.conf, rc.conf.local, rc.firewall, sysctl.conf, etc.
Users who have customized versions of scripts that have been removed
should take great care when upgrading, since the compatibility code
that used those old scripts has also been removed.
