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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:37:30 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] serial efishell anybody?
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>>>>> "Stephane" = Stephane Eranian <eranian@cello.hpl.hp.com> writes:

>> >>>>> "Christoph" = Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com> writes:
>>  115k2 8n1 afaik
>> 
Stephane> Well, that's the speed of the serial connection by
Stephane> default. That's good enough to connect a Linux serial
Stephane> console.

Stephane> I think Roland was talking about COMPLETELY booting via
Stephane> serial, i.e.  getting EFI on serial line. Yes, that's
Stephane> possible but I haven't certainely tried that yet. I think
Stephane> you have to set some EFI variable in NVRAM and reboot. Check
Stephane> out the EFI spec near the end.

Ahhh, I would be quite interested in that bit in fact ;-)

Jes