[ipxe-devel] Serial port info

[Ján ONDREJ (SAL)]

Hello,

  I think this is not always true. It's configurable in BIOS, but it's not
simple to configure it, sometimes user has no permission to configure these
options.

  There is an "uart" branch of IPXe, which can configure serial console
settings with "console" IPXe command, but this branch is not stable yet.

  Michael, have you some time to finish this? Do you need bugreports?

  With this option, you can configure you serial port from ipxe script.
I think it will be possible to do this:

  console --port 1
  prompt --timeout 3000 Press ENTER to use ttyS0 (COM1)
  console --port 2
  prompt --timeout 3000 Press ENTER to use ttyS1 (COM2)
  console --port 0
  echo Serial console disabled.

This is just an example. I don't know, which numbers should be defined
after --port command ...

							SAL

On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 03:35:15PM +0200, Bjørnar Ness wrote:
> When using IPMI and SOL, the SOL serial port number varies from
> hardware to hardware, but is (as far as I have seen) allways the
> highest numbered ttyS.
> 
> Is it possible in ipxe, to detect what serial port is the last one? I
> need this to
> set console= later in the process.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> -- 
> Bj(/)rnar
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