Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-12-03 Thread dann frazier
Thanks for your responses. As I was writing this report, I began to wonder why exactly the proc trick doesn't work on some ia64 configs - I'm investigating this now. If I can find a workable solution there, we may be able to forego these changes - if not, I'll regenerate new patches based on your c

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-12-01 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 November 2007, dann frazier wrote: > # ./serial-console-info > DEV=ttyS2 > SPEED=115200 One more thing... Why not just: device:\tttyS2 speed:\t115200 IMO that would be more in line with how other utils output stuff. Current output looks a bit like envvars, but isn't. signature.asc

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-12-01 Thread Otavio Salvador
Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Friday 30 November 2007, dann frazier wrote: >> The attached patch to di-utils adds a slightly modified version of > > I compiled this on amd64 and after stripping it is still 4k. As it is only > needed during finish install, I wonder if it should be in

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-11-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 30 November 2007, dann frazier wrote: > The attached patch to di-utils adds a slightly modified version of I compiled this on amd64 and after stripping it is still 4k. As it is only needed during finish install, I wonder if it should be in di-utils and thus in initrds. Maybe we should

Bug#453749: Fix serial console detection on ia64

2007-11-30 Thread dann frazier
Package: finish-install Version: 2.13 Severity: important Tags: patch If you boot an ia64 system[1] without specifying a console= parameter, the kernel will try to map /dev/console to whatever settings were detected from EFI (firmware interface). If EFI uses a serial console, /dev/console will be