[Gllug] openboot on a sparc via minicom

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Nov 30 15:02:49 UTC 2004


On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Rich Walker uttered the following:
> Nix <nix at esperi.org.uk> writes:
>>
>> I expect there's no way to beat commodity PC hardware into sanity in this
>> area? :(
> 
> You could probably splice a PIC into the cable, set up to only let BREAK
> through if the preceding characters matched a specified string.

For someone with my magically bad abilities at hardware, that equates to
`no'. :(

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