From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 11:58:31 +0200
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02/05/2010 02:02, Paul Smith wrote:
> I've looked at setserial and it supports a baud_base parameter but that
> doesn't appear to be what I want (I tried it anyway: changing it didn't
> work, my console output was still screwed up).
> 
> Trying to do something like creating customized PXE configs on the
> server based on the MAC addresses of the blades that are "new" (or old)
> would be an absolute nightmare as people swap blades between chassis,
> add new ones, etc. all the time.
> 
> 
> Please help me find a better way... :-(
> 

It's strange that it's not possible to change the baud rate, but I'm not
an expert of tty layer. A naive implementation could be patch the kernel
to choose a well-known baud rate for your hw reading a revision register
or something like that.

Marco