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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
To: Linux kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:26:25 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107302126.f6ULQPi1032424@webber.adilger.int> (raw)

Khalid Aziz writes:
> I am working on adding support for serial console on legacy free
> machines. Legacy free machines are not expected to have the legacy COM
> ports.

Has anyone considered allowing console devices to run over bi-directional
parallel ports?  I imagine most of the required code is in PLIP and serial,
which unfortunately I know nothing about.

Several newer systems I have today do not have physical serial ports at all,
but all of them (even laptops) still have bi-directional parallel ports.

I suppose there may be some difficulties in exporting a "serial-like"
interface to the user apps (e.g. minicom and such), but maybe not.

Cheers, Andreas
-- 
Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/               -- Dogbert


             reply	other threads:[~2001-07-30 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-30 21:26 Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-07-30 21:38 ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 22:40   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-30 22:53     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2001-07-30 22:53     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-07-30 23:00     ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 23:17       ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-30 23:39         ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 23:52           ` Randy.Dunlap
2001-07-30 23:32       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-30 23:40         ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-30 23:45         ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-31 14:34           ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-07-31 15:54             ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-07-31 16:00             ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-07-31 16:10             ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-31 16:39             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-07-31 18:43               ` Russell King
2001-08-01  2:01               ` Keith Owens
2001-07-31 16:42             ` Russell King
2001-07-31 17:14               ` Stuart MacDonald
2001-07-31 18:46                 ` Russell King
2001-08-01  3:21               ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-08-01  3:39                 ` Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2001-07-31  1:33     ` Keith Owens
2001-07-31  4:50       ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-07-31 16:15         ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-29 20:47           ` Alan Cox
2001-07-31 16:20           ` Randy.Dunlap
     [not found] <no.id>
2001-07-26 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-07-30 17:47   ` Khalid Aziz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-26 21:13 Khalid Aziz
2001-07-27 13:28 ` Simon Richter
2001-07-30 17:49   ` Khalid Aziz
2001-07-30 18:21 ` Rik van Riel
2001-07-30 19:39   ` Khalid Aziz

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