Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Miquel van Smoorenburg) | Subject | Re: Console as terminal on serial port | Date | 25 Jun 1996 01:10:38 +0200 |
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In article <199606241730.SAA00953@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk>, Graham Mitchell <gmitch@woodlea.wintermute.co.uk> wrote: >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
Amazing! I couldn't get my UART to reckognize a break, so I thought it was a defect in the serial driver.. Heh, SunOS has the same problem with a serial console on it.. don't turn it off ;). I'll make a new version that accepts a boot option like "console_break=x", where x:
x=0: do not accept BREAKs x=1 : like it is now x>1 : listen for x breaks in succesion (within a few seconds)
Does that sound OK?
Mike.
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