dcons_crom(4)

dcons_crom4

Configuration rom stub for dcons(4)

Usage

device dcons_crom device dcons device firewire

Overview

The dcons_crom exposes the buffer address of dcons(4) through the Configuration ROM of firewire(4). This address is supposed to be used by dconschat(8).

Releases

56 releases since FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE; the text changed 35 times.

  1. 4.10
  2. 4.11
  3. 5.2–5.2.1
  4. 5.3–6.3
  5. 6.4
  6. 7.0
  7. 7.1
  8. 7.2
  9. 7.3
  10. 7.4
  11. 8.0
  12. 8.1
  13. 8.2
  14. 8.3
  15. 8.4
  16. 9.0
  17. 9.1
  18. 9.2
  19. 9.3
  20. 10.0
  21. 10.1
  22. 10.2
  23. 10.3
  24. 10.4
  25. 11.0
  26. 11.1
  27. 11.2
  28. 11.3
  29. 11.4
  30. 12.0
  31. 12.1
  32. 12.2
  33. 12.3
  34. 12.4
  35. 13.0–13.2
  36. 13.3–16.0

Authors

Hidetoshi Shimokawa ⟨[email protected]⟩

Bugs

If you load dcons_crom.ko manually after the system is booted, you may have to initiate a bus reset using “fwcontrol -r” to update the Configuration ROM.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.