[Gllug] Serial console (again)

[John Hearns]

A little while ago, we had a thread on serial consoles,
and the lack of support on i386 ssytems for 'real'
serial consoles.

This just in from the Linuxbios list.
I want one. PLEESE. Mummy, I want one.
If I'm good will Santa bring me one?





"According to

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5043

  ONE OF OUR READERS who was at Linuxworld at the beginning of last week
  talked to a partner showing off a dual Opteron server.

  He said that this board uses PC2100 registered ECC DDR but it was
another
  chip on the motherboard that really caught his attention.

  He said that the board had an IBM Power CPU running at 90MHz, together
with
  Flash memory holding a Linux micro kernel for BIOS functions and
processor
  failover and replacement.


Seems quite extreme to use an entire CPU for a BIOS, and it is not at
all clear
if it uses any of linuxbios per se. Or much else...

Justin"





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