Processed: Re: Bug#394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial consoles (hvc and hvsi)
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Re: Bug#394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial consoles (hvc and hvsi)
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it not be better to use the variable in rootskel to detect that the terminal is a serial terminal, namely those who delcare themselves to be : TERM_TYPE=serial in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/detect-console-linux I think it can be an interesting option to investigate. How deeply would be the patch to do that? Furthermore, i have personally found out that it is interesting to enable a serial console in /etc/inittab even in non-serial installs, Maybe a debconf question of low priority would allow this to be preseeded or set in expert installs ? Maybe too late for etch now, but still something to keep in mind. Interesting. That would help indeed. But maybe instead of enabling it by default or using a debconf question would be eaiser to use a command line param to enable it. What do you think? -- O T A V I OS A L V A D O R - E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br - Microsoft gives you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial consoles (hvc and hvsi)
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:32:53PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it not be better to use the variable in rootskel to detect that the terminal is a serial terminal, namely those who delcare themselves to be : TERM_TYPE=serial in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/detect-console-linux I think it can be an interesting option to investigate. How deeply would be the patch to do that? I am not sure. There may be some trick, since the TERM_TYPE case has more serial devices than the finish-install one. That said, i think we could check for TERM_TYPE=serial, and if so, guess the console from $console, with a few heuristic for the less evident cases. I would like comments from Bastian, and others with knowledge of the less evident detect-console-linux serial cases to go further here. Furthermore, i have personally found out that it is interesting to enable a serial console in /etc/inittab even in non-serial installs, Maybe a debconf question of low priority would allow this to be preseeded or set in expert installs ? Maybe too late for etch now, but still something to keep in mind. Interesting. That would help indeed. But maybe instead of enabling it by default or using a debconf question would be eaiser to use a command line param to enable it. What do you think? The best would be a defaulting to no debconf question, maybe even a n invisible one, so you can preseed it. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
