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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
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Subject: Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines 
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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:40:31 -0600 (MDT), 
Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com> wrote:
>What bothers me is that new systems don't have a serial port, and no ISA
>slots, so there is no hope of getting a "serial console" support without
>ACPI (which is rather heavyweight AFAIK).  USB is far too complex to use
>for early-boot debugging, so what else is left?

I briefly discussed this with the USB maintainers at the 2.5 kernel
developers conference.  They thought that a stripped down USB serial
console was possible, without full USB support.  Is that still the
case?

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