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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:45:38 -0600
From: Khalid Aziz <khalid@fc.hp.com>
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To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines
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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> OK, maybe I'm misunderstanding here, but even if I put in a PCI serial
> card in such a machine, can I get serial console support without ACPI?
> Not that it matters in my case, because there are no PCI slots on the
> motherboard either.
> 

AFAIK, you can not have console on a PCI serial port at this time. I
looked at it few months back and found out that PCI initialization
happens much too late for a serial console. It would take quite a bit of
work to get serial console working on PCI cards. PA-Linux faced the same
problem but they were able to get around it by using the firmware calls
to do console I/O. If serial console were working on PCI serial cards,
you wouldn't need ACPI to use it.

-- 
Khalid

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Khalid Aziz                              Linux Systems Operation R&D
(970)898-9214                                        Hewlett-Packard
khalid@fc.hp.com                                    Fort Collins, CO
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