Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Serial Console mini HOWTO | Date | 1 May 1996 22:47:02 +0200 |
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In article <4m8f22$ds@fido.asd.sgi.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com> wrote: >I suffered to get this to work, you shouldn't have to. There is a patch below >that you need to apply, I'll ship it to Linus too.
I made a serial console patch ages ago. It is more compatible with LILO and it supports all normal ports, baudrates etc. It even includes a very small kernel monitor for debugging.
Also, it allocates a new major/minor no for /dev/console so that /dev/console _always_ is the physical system console, even if it is a terminal.
The patch can be found on ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/os/linux/kernel/patches/v1.3/ (ser-cons is just the serial console patch, ser-cons-kmon includes the serial console patch _and_ a small kernel monitor). It includes dicumentation for the linux/Documentation/ subdirectory. Read it!
And yes we're trying to get it in the standard kernel too, but Linus probably thinks it isn't of any real use.. for us ISPs it is a real lifesaver though.
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