Last updated on July 1, 2026
See that Change the default console to zstty0? [no] line? That’s the result of OpenBSD Problem Report #5732 which I had submitted a few weeks back. Two days ago Ken Westerback, one of the OpenBSD devs emailed me a patch which was about to be committed in order to resolve the problem, and a request that I test it on macppc. Well, I did, and it works great.
In short, it looks through your dmesg for the console and sets up whatever serial port is used for that as your console.
This makes me happy. OpenBSD really is a great OS.
That’s awesome that you got quick resolution from them
Don’t see that from many distros!
Good working submitting a good bug report that resulted in change, too!!
Thanks. :) Although it’s fairly work-like… Usually I’m on the other end, though.
It helps when you report to the people making the software, instead of people who wait for it to be updated.