On Sun 2008-06-22 10:49:17 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > However, I haven't been able to test this properly because i don't > have any equipment that natively does 7bit serial connections. > > I tried it against a grub instance configured with > > serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=7 --parity=no --stop=1 > > but was unable to get an active communication (though i don't know how > well-tested grub's --word=7 option is either). fwiw, i *was* able to test cereal's ability to do 7-bit communications when the remote terminal was controlled by another screen session invoked with 115200,cs7. This doesn't strike me as a really strong test for interoperability, though, since it's just screen on both sides.
Any pointers to equipment i could do proper tests on for this?
Anything other than 8n1 seems pretty scarce on the ground, from what
i've seen.
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