Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:30:38 +1300


On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 03:17:04PM -0800, Ivan Passos wrote:

Then HPA may ask: but why do you want to run the serial console
at 115200?? The answer is simple: because we can (or more
precisely, because the HW can ;).

Actually... consider debugging PCI hardware on a large SMP box; you
get lots of kernel messages and even reboot is slowed by the volume
you see there.

There you want as fast a console as you can possibly have...

--cw
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