Borrow Poul-Henning's Axe and chop out old information for 4.x, 5.x

and unsupported 6.x releases. Tom started this process a while ago
and I'll follow up on that for the latest EoL round.

The old versions can still be found in the doc archives:
http://docs.freebsd.org/doc/

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
index 42e648eb04..5a2965c6ba 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialcomms/chapter.sgml
@@ -498,10 +498,6 @@
 		for modems.  You may use the call-out port if the serial cable
 		or the terminal does not support the carrier detect
 		signal.</para>
-
-	      <note><para>Call-out ports are named
-		<filename>/dev/cuaa<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> in
-		&os;&nbsp;5.X and older.</para></note>
 	    </listitem>
 	  </itemizedlist>
 
@@ -595,18 +591,12 @@ sio3: type 16550A</screen>
 	and <filename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename>
 	(call-out) devices.  FreeBSD also provides initialization devices
 	(<filename>/dev/ttyd<replaceable>N</replaceable>.init</filename> and
-	<filename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable>.init</filename> on
-	&os;&nbsp;6.X,
-	<filename>/dev/ttyid<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> and
-	<filename>/dev/cuaia<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> on
-	&os;&nbsp;5.X) and
+	<filename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable>.init</filename>
+	and
 	locking devices
 	(<filename>/dev/ttyd<replaceable>N</replaceable>.lock</filename> and
-	<filename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable>.lock</filename> on
-	&os;&nbsp;6.X,
-	<filename>/dev/ttyld<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> and
-	<filename>/dev/cuala<replaceable>N</replaceable></filename> on
-	&os;&nbsp;5.X).  The
+	<filename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable>.lock</filename>)
+	The
 	initialization devices are used to initialize communications port
 	parameters each time a port is opened, such as
 	<literal>crtscts</literal> for modems which use
@@ -779,10 +769,7 @@ sio3: type 16550A</screen>
 	<para>Where <quote>serial-port-device</quote> is the name of a
 	  special device file denoting a serial port of your system.
 	  These device files are called
-	  <devicename>/dev/cuaa<replaceable>N</replaceable></devicename>
-	  for &os; versions older than 6.0, and
-	  <devicename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable></devicename>
-	  for 6.0 and later versions.</para>
+	  <devicename>/dev/cuad<replaceable>N</replaceable></devicename>.</para>
 
 	<para>The <quote>N</quote>-part of a device name is the serial
 	  port number.</para>
@@ -2696,14 +2683,6 @@ comconsole_speed="115200"
 console="comconsole,vidconsole"</programlisting>
 	  </listitem>
 	</itemizedlist>
-
-	<note>
-	  <para>&os; versions before 6.1-RELEASE do not support the
-	    <option>-S</option> or the <varname>comconsole_speed</varname>
-	    option in <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, so you will have
-	    to recompile the boot blocks if you are using such a version of
-	    &os;.</para>
-	</note>
       </sect3>
 
       <sect3 id="serialconsole-com2">
@@ -2829,7 +2808,7 @@ ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure</programlisting>
 
 	<para>You can easily specify the boot loader and the kernel to use the
 	  serial console by writing just one line in
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.rc</filename>:</para>
+	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>:</para>
 
 	<programlisting>set console="comconsole"</programlisting>
 
@@ -2837,7 +2816,7 @@ ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure</programlisting>
 	  block discussed in the previous section.</para>
 
 	<para>You had better put the above line as the first line of
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.rc</filename> so as to see boot messages  on
+	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename> so as to see boot messages  on
 	  the serial console as early as possible.</para>
 
 	<para>Likewise, you can specify the internal console as:</para>
@@ -2849,23 +2828,9 @@ ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" unknown off secure</programlisting>
 	  kernel, will use whichever console indicated by the
 	  <option>-h</option> option in the  boot block.</para>
 
-	<para>In versions 3.2 or later, you may specify the console in
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf.local</filename> or
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>, rather than in
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.rc</filename>.  In this method your
-	  <filename>/boot/loader.rc</filename> should look like:</para>
-
-	<programlisting>include /boot/loader.4th
-start</programlisting>
-
-	<para>Then, create <filename>/boot/loader.conf.local</filename>  and
-	  put the following line there.</para>
-
-	<programlisting>console=comconsole</programlisting>
-
-	<para>or</para>
-
-	<programlisting>console=vidconsole</programlisting>
+	<para>The console can be specified in
+	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf.local</filename> or in
+	  <filename>/boot/loader.conf</filename>.</para>
 
 	<para>See &man.loader.conf.5; for more information.</para>