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On 16 Sep 2002, Eric W Biederman wrote:
NIC hardware is noticeably more complex than serial ports so getting a network console going from power on is still an open issue. I don't know that it has been tested much yet.
we're going to try this using myrinet hardware. I.e. a very simple control program on the NIC that will give us "serial port" in linuxbios for the very early startup.
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