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From: "Yinghai Lu" <yinghai.lu@amd.com>
To: "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, "Peter Stuge" <stuge-linuxbios@cdy.org>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	"Stefan Reinauer" <stepan@coresystems.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxbios@linuxbios.org,
	"Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>, "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [LinuxBIOS] [linux-usb-devel] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] x86_64 Early usb debug port support.
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 00:52:26 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86802c440612080052x3704d767p8bfeb7fb723c9883@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061208071437.GA23173@suse.de>

On 12/7/06, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> Ugh, no, never use the usb-serial driver as a console device.
>
> That was a bad hack done as a bet many years ago.  For many obvious
> reasons it does not work well.
understood, I found with usb_serial convertor could lose some chatacter.
but the usb-debug cable seem it keep all character.
>
> > host with cat /dev/ttyUSB0
> > But if use minicom in host, it will not show '\r', I guess the usb debug
> > cable eat return char. Greg, Can you add that back in usb_debug by
> > replacing '\n' with '\r', '\n'?
>
> The usb-serial console code should handle this, I thought we fixed it a
> while ago.
Is it in the git tree?
>
> But this kind of interface is not what these devices are good for.  They
> are for the debug port information, not as a usb-serial console device.
> Otherwise they are way too expensive of a device...
the problem is some "modern" PC will left out serial port. then the cable
could get cheap.

YH

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-08  8:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08  3:48 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-08  7:14 ` Greg KH
2006-12-08  8:52   ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2006-12-08  7:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-08  8:53   ` Yinghai Lu
2006-12-08  9:07     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13  7:00       ` Yinghai Lu
2006-12-13  7:29         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-13 10:09           ` Yinghai Lu
2006-12-13 10:41             ` Yinghai Lu
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-09  3:16 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-09 10:54 ` Peter Stuge
2006-12-07 22:06 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-06 21:08 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-07  9:51 ` [LinuxBIOS] " Peter Stuge
2006-12-06  0:00 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-05 23:29 Lu, Yinghai
2006-12-05 23:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-12-06 15:31   ` Segher Boessenkool

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