From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: Khalid Aziz <khalid@fc.hp.com>,
Linux kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
jerdfelt@valinux.com, greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:33:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31754.996543218@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:40:31 CST." <200107302240.f6UMeWg2001230@webber.adilger.int>
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:40:31 -0600 (MDT),
Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> wrote:
>What bothers me is that new systems don't have a serial port, and no ISA
>slots, so there is no hope of getting a "serial console" support without
>ACPI (which is rather heavyweight AFAIK). USB is far too complex to use
>for early-boot debugging, so what else is left?
I briefly discussed this with the USB maintainers at the 2.5 kernel
developers conference. They thought that a stripped down USB serial
console was possible, without full USB support. Is that still the
case?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-31 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-30 21:26 Support for serial console on legacy free machines Andreas Dilger
2001-07-30 21:38 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 22:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-30 22:53 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-07-30 22:53 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-07-30 23:00 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 23:17 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-30 23:39 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 23:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-30 23:32 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-30 23:40 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-30 23:45 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-31 14:34 ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-07-31 15:54 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-07-31 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-31 16:10 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-31 16:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-31 18:43 ` Russell King
2001-08-01 2:01 ` Keith Owens
2001-07-31 16:42 ` Russell King
2001-07-31 17:14 ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-07-31 18:46 ` Russell King
2001-08-01 3:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-01 3:39 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-31 1:33 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-07-31 4:50 ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-07-31 16:15 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-29 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-31 16:20 ` Randy.Dunlap
[not found] <no.id>
2001-07-26 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 17:47 ` Khalid Aziz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-26 21:13 Khalid Aziz
2001-07-27 13:28 ` Simon Richter
2001-07-30 17:49 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 19:39 ` Khalid Aziz
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