Re: [LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881

[Lu, Yinghai]

Good.

That will make you boot time longer. Because the com2 only need to set
to 19200.

YH

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Subject: [LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881

Hi there,

It seems COM2 is disabled by default in the s2881/Config.lb file. Since
the
board has a COM2 connector, and it is what you would use with the IPMI
daughter card, would it make sense to enable it by default?

I've got IPMI console redirection working by letting FILO 0.5 (in grub
mode)
and the kernel talk to COM2 instead of COM1. COM2 is connected to the
IPMI
card. With the latest ipmitool snapshot
(http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/snapshot/), that gives me have a serial
console over the network without extra hardware (other than the IPMI
card).

Pretty brilliant!
Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881

[Ward Vandewege]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:09:44PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> Good.
>
> That will make you boot time longer. Because the com2 only need to set
> to 19200.

That is correct. But it will only make the boot time longer when using com2,
right? Not just when it's enabled. And reducing the verbosity of linuxbios
and the kernel at startup should remove most of the slowdown...

Ward.

[LinuxBIOS] COM2 in tyan/s2881

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Ward Vandewege  [060517 00:36]:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 03:09:44PM -0700, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> > Good.
> >
> > That will make you boot time longer. Because the com2 only need to set
> > to 19200.
>
> That is correct. But it will only make the boot time longer when using com2,
> right? Not just when it's enabled. And reducing the verbosity of linuxbios
> and the kernel at startup should remove most of the slowdown...

Right. If the hardware is physically there onboard it should be enabled
per default.

Stefan.