On 04/27/2012 07:29 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Since I've been configuring a couple of systems lately for remote
> access, which include configuring the serial console, I'm wondering if
> it would be a good idea to change our inittab so that the default
> (commented out) definition of the serial consoles is a bit more.. modern.
>
> The current definition sets the console at 9600 baud, using vt100
> emulation; I think most of us who configure it, do so at 115200 baud,
> and some prefer vt-utf8 over vt100 (the two are partially compatible as
> far as I can tell).
>
> Of the two systems I've configured – a SuperMicro server which is the
> new tinderbox host, and an HP for work – both have the default IPMI
> configuration for Serial-over-LAN set at 115200, and the HP also had
> VT-UTF8 by default for emulation (SuperMicro defaulted to vt100 but
> still allows utf8).
>
> Comments?
>
I wouldn't mind for amd64/x86.
There haven't been any new alpha/hppa systems in years, and the default
for them was 9600. All the cheap(and therefore common) sparc hardware
uses 9600 as we're talking about systems 10 years old. On ia64, from
what i've had access to in the last years, it used 9600 as well.
m68k/s390/sh are very exotic arches and 9600 is a safe default.
I'm providing this info as member of the teams of those architectures
i've mentioned(except hppa). I have no clue about mips or ppc* systems.
On the other hand, maybe it could be changed on arm to 115200, as all
the devices i have use that speed. Although some use a non-standard
serial port(ttyO{0,2} for OMAP devices, ttymxc0 for FSL i.mx devices).
