On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:12, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:12AM +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele
wrote:
> However, for that to work, the serial driver needs to be compiled as a
> module. AFAIK, in Red Hat kernels it's always compiled in.
>
> The only thing I could think of that would require it to be compiled in,
> is kernel debugging over a serial link.
Serial console from initial boot is in fact critical to our ability
to debug user problems. You have answered your own question.
major suckage then :) So, failing that, is there (I'm speaking
theoretically here, I'm not a kernel hacker) some way that the kernel
could grab serial at boot time, but release it when the boot has
finished and the rest of the system is started ? I somehow somewhere
feel that this might be possible :) If it is, would something like that
be considered if someone did the code ?
Thomas
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