Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jun 1997 09:46:11 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Repeat the Ending |
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On 11 Jun 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.970610171058.31682K-100000@inorganic5.fdt.net>, > Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> wrote: > >On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Paul H. Hargrove wrote: > > > >> kernel. The existing code just uses what is available, nearly for > >> free, on the VGS hardware. For checking boot messages I'd suggest > >> using a serial console. > > > >What serial console? :) > >I realize there are unofficial patches for it. I'd love to be using a > >serial console, if only it were part of Linus's kernel source. I've got a > >spare RocketPort 16 port card I could wire into most of the systems. > > I have been working on the serial console support for linux-2.1.x, and > I'll be sending a patch to Linus soon. If he accepts it (I hope so) > I'll make a backport of the 2.1.x console stuff to 2.0.x
Great!
I really liked your version for 2.0 (especially from the multi-architecture viewpoint), so hopefully it's better than the current thing that's called serial console. If you enable that, you can't use the normal console anymore due to the `hard' serial console option at compile time. And if you work around that, X and gpm don't work anymore due to /dev/tty0 autopointing to the serial port.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/m68k on Amiga http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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