25 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hackersBoot manager beep (revisited)| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Eric Anderson | May 1, 2006 3:34 am | |
| Darren Pilgrim | May 1, 2006 4:44 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 5:30 am | |
| Alex Zbyslaw | May 1, 2006 9:31 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 10:15 am | |
| Luigi Rizzo | May 1, 2006 10:29 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 10:48 am | |
| Dag-Erling Smørgrav | May 1, 2006 10:54 am | |
| Alex Zbyslaw | May 1, 2006 12:16 pm | |
| Eric Anderson | May 1, 2006 12:22 pm | |
| Alex Zbyslaw | May 1, 2006 12:32 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 12:52 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 12:54 pm | |
| Eric Anderson | May 1, 2006 12:55 pm | |
| Daniel Lang | May 1, 2006 1:03 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 1, 2006 1:06 pm | |
| John Baldwin | May 1, 2006 6:03 pm | |
| John Baldwin | May 1, 2006 6:03 pm | |
| John Baldwin | May 1, 2006 6:03 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | May 2, 2006 5:31 am | |
| Alex Zbyslaw | May 2, 2006 11:36 am | |
| John Baldwin | May 2, 2006 12:38 pm | |
| Dag-Erling Smørgrav | May 2, 2006 1:39 pm | |
| Alex Zbyslaw | May 2, 2006 10:47 pm | |
| Eric Anderson | May 3, 2006 12:50 am |
| Subject: | Boot manager beep (revisited) | |
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| From: | Alex Zbyslaw (xfb...@dial.pipex.com) | |
| Date: | May 1, 2006 9:31:25 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-hackers | |
Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2006-04-30 22:34, Eric Anderson <ande...@centtech.com> wrote:
This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html
mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional.
Does something like the following sound reasonable (I haven't had a chance to run this through a build-test, so use with care). The default behavior should be to *include* a beep, but it can be turned off by setting WITHOUT_BOOTEASY_BEEP in `/etc/src.conf'.
I have a very similar patch which I pulled from somewhere not long after switching to 5.4. That wrapped the beep inside #ifdef SIO (which I assumed was something standard, but don't know) so that you got a beep with a serial console and not without.
I can see the advantage of the beep when running headless, but for anything with a console the beep just seems like something out of the 1970s. My vote (fwiw) would be to reverse the logic and have WITH_BOOTEASY_BEEP so that it's off by default unless you turn it on with the option *or* if you have a serial console (assuming that SIO is something standard).
At the same time I also patched so that NTFS filesystem was recognised as "DOS", to get rid of the ?? on standard dual-boot Win/FreeBSD machines. For me, this still comes in under 512 bytes, though I don't know by how much since the make process seems to pad to 512 bytes. The ?? has been a recurring "complaint" and the fix was easy enough and "works for me" (TM).
--Alex