Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines

Khalid Aziz (khalid@fc.hp.com)
Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:38:34 -0600


Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> Khalid Aziz writes:
> > I am working on adding support for serial console on legacy free
> > machines. Legacy free machines are not expected to have the legacy COM
> > ports.
>
> Has anyone considered allowing console devices to run over bi-directional
> parallel ports? I imagine most of the required code is in PLIP and serial,
> which unfortunately I know nothing about.
>
> Several newer systems I have today do not have physical serial ports at all,
> but all of them (even laptops) still have bi-directional parallel ports.
>
> I suppose there may be some difficulties in exporting a "serial-like"
> interface to the user apps (e.g. minicom and such), but maybe not.
>

SH supports console on line printer which I assume is a parallel port
console. You can check if that code will work for you and if it can be
ported to x86.

-- 
Khalid

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