Now _this_ is what I was looking for. Note to self: check the development
kernels before asking questions.
This approach seems to be far superior to the serial-echo patch available
from various sources, which, unfortunately, also seems to go by the name
"serial console patch" (this one just has a quick hack to allow echoing
printk messages to a hardcoded serial port). While I can't remember where
I got that one from, it was one of the places listed in the "headless
non-PC x86" thread from October.
Unfortunately, I seem to be having interrupt problems when I use it; there
is a 5-second delay between typed characters and the echoed character. As
soon as I get that solved, I can lose embedded-DOS forever!
Thanks, everybody.
Eric Seppanen / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciro Cattuto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>> BTW, I think there is support in the experimental kernels (now 2.2pre
;-)
>> for something related with the serial console, but I haven't looked at
it.
>> Someone please...?
>
>Support for true serial console in 2.1.x kernels is stable and has been
>backported to kernel 2.0.36 by Miquel van Smoorenburg
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/kernel/sercons-2.1.x-2.0.36.patch
>
