Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:26:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:26:39 -0400 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:36340 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:26:23 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200107302126.f6ULQPi1032424@webber.adilger.int> Subject: Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines To: Linux kernel development list Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:26:25 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL87 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/