On 09/25/2012 03:14 PM, Matt Taggart wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes: >> do you have an example of where this actually fails to work? > > I had a machine fail to start a getty on the serial and then it worked with > a freshly built debirf with that change. But maybe it was something else > that changed. I will try to repeat the problem and report back.
thanks!
>> fwiw, i think most ipmi serials are also real serial ports on the
>> mainboard, just exported via another external interface through the ipmi
>> symbiont device.
>
> All the ones I've seen (all Supermicro, a couple variants) have a ttyS0 on
> the mainboard and then the IPMI SOL is ttyS2 or ttyS1.
right. what i was trying to say is that i suspect if you look at the
actual hardware of those machines, you'll find that there's a physical
serial controller in there, stuck between the IPMI hardware and the host
hardware.
--dkg
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