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SubjectRe: Console as terminal on serial port
On 21 Jun 96 at 17:11, Danny ter Haar wrote:

> In article <m0uWtKh-00049nC@datasoft.com>,
> Mark Buckaway <mark@datasoft.com> wrote:
> >
> >Out of curiousity, has anyone done any work on configuring
> >the kernel to boot up and use a serial port as the console?
> >
>
> ftp.cistron.nl/pub/os/linux/kernel/patches/v2.0/

These work wonderfully..... However, make sure that your terminal
software (or indeed terminal) doesnt generate a break as you switch
it off, as this will place the system into the monitor. Other than
this, a very useful patch, that I hope makes it into 2.1



Graham
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