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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "Vincent Stehlé" <vincent.stehle@stepmind.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: PROM variables
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:17:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hea7k1t9.fsf@trasno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E7057A6.60007@stepmind.com> (Vincent Stehlé's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:04:22 +0100")

>>>>> "vincent" == Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@stepmind.com> writes:

vincent> Hi all,

vincent> Is there a way to get/set PROM variables under Linux ?

vincent> I have an indigo2 with no display, and setting the variables without
vincent> reverting to the monitor through the serial line would be very handy.

vincent> As I doubt there is currently a solution, I was thinking about
vincent> implementing this as a /proc subdir. What do you think ?

You can set them through the serial console in the same way that you
can set it in the monitor?

Are you sure that you have set the prom variables to use the serial
console?

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-13 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-13 10:04 PROM variables Vincent Stehlé
2003-03-13 10:17 ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2003-03-13 10:26 ` Guido Guenther
2003-03-13 11:33   ` Ladislav Michl
2003-03-13 11:42     ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-13 11:42     ` Juan Quintela
2003-03-13 16:08   ` Vincent Stehlé
2003-03-13 10:27 ` Ladislav Michl

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