[arch-releng] November release

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Sun Oct 28 17:50:33 EDT 2012


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On 10/28/2012 06:39 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Am 28.10.2012 22:29, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
>>>> Good question... But I think this can be problematic on
>>>> systems where you have connected some serial device. The same
>>>> can be applied to ttyUSB0.
>>>> 
>>> Ignore me, nobody complains about problems with syslinux that
>>> enabled seria 0l by default.
>>> 
>>> In that case, I have no problems in enabling by default.
>>> 
>> mmm no!, on systems without serial port, serial-getty will block
>> startup until some timeout is reached.
>> 
>> Try this starting it without serial ports, (ie on kvm -serial
>> no)
> 
> Awww :(
> 
> There are practically no systems without a serial port, but this is
> a showstopper. This will still work with console=ttyS0 (or
> console=hvc0).
> 
> 

But can be disabled by default (or ondemand) on firmware configuration
if motherboard has a pin-socket for it (is rare to find today a
motherboard with the "fichita" DB-9 on the panel)

Notebook, netbooks...no serial.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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