On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 01:16:43PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
>On Sat, 2019-01-19 at 11:08 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >So far I have done a proof-of-concept hack and demonstrated that
>> >running two instances does in fact work nicely without anything
>> >obvious breaking. The console selection still needs some work/checking
>> >(I've run out of time for that tonight, but it can easily be fished
>> >out of the kernel command line args. (or we could get fancier).
>>
>> Nod. Potentially we might end up of running on multiple
>> consoles.
>
>IIRC (and it hasn't changed in the years since I knew this stuff) we
>already have this on some of the netconsole install images for
>arm{el,hf}, you end up with an installer on serial and one on the ssh
>connection. Not an identical situation since I think the second one is
>only spawned when you login via ssh, but some sort of precedence I
>guess!
Yup, the netconsole case was exactly my inspiration for going down
this route. :-)
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