Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 22 Jun 1996 17:27:32 +0100 (BST) | From | Bryn Paul Arnold Jones <> | Subject | Re: Console as terminal on serial port |
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On Fri, 21 Jun 1996, Mark Buckaway wrote:
> "Mark Hahn said:" > > > >> Most workstations support booting up from a dumb term or a frame > >> buffer/graphics card. I would just like to do this with Linux on a PC. > > > >have you looked at the serial hooks in lilo? naturally, you'd > >also need the serial console patch. > > Aha! Someone that understands!. > > Yes, I know LILO supports the serial port. The problem is, the kernel > needs to do the same. I thought perhaps someone has already done the > work. >
They have, there was a patch pointed out some time earlyer today (well could be yesterday, depends on where you are ;). Well the patch was at:
ftp.cistron.nl:/pub/os/linux/kernel/patches/v2.0/ser-cons-kmon-2.0.0.diff
> Mark Bryn
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