[arch-releng] November release

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Oct 30 05:25:11 EDT 2012


On 10/30/2012 01:36 AM, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am 28.10.2012 22:50, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
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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.
> 
> I suggest to postpone any change to this to next month. f there are no
> objections I'll tag a new archiso release tonight.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Pierre
> 

Sure go ahead. Thanks :)

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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