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From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Subject: Re: USB console and network devices unsupported for boot
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:12:08 -0700
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To: VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: Linux Embedded Mailing List <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>, Tony Colclough <colclot@cisco.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

VomLehn wrote:
> My question: are USB serial consoles and auto-configured network devices in
> common use or is my application a special case? If the former, we need to push
> for a better resolution. Otherwise, I'll go off and figure out something that
> works for my application.

I'd say that they're not uncommon during development, but I
(personally) don't know of any shipped products with either of
these.
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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