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From:   Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/x86_64_defconfig: Enable the serial console
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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:32:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:22:10AM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
> > However, it was found while adding some x86 Chromebooks[1] to
> > KernelCI that x86_64_defconfig lacked some basic things for
> > anyone to be able to boot a kernel with a serial console enabled
> > on those.
> 
> Hold on, those are laptops, right? How come they do have serial console?
> Because laptops don't have serial console - that has been the eternal
> problem with debugging kernels on laptops.

Well, to be precise, they don't have *anymore*. I used to exclusively
select laptops having a serial port given that I was using it daily with
routers, until I had to resign when I abandonned my good old NC8000 :-/

Willy