On Sun, Jun 16, 2019 at 05:44:20AM +0200, Ján ONDREJ (SAL) wrote: > On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 04:10:27PM +0100, Faidon Liambotis wrote: > > Allow serial port configuration at runtime > > > > Add configuration variables for the serial port and its options, > > allowing the configuration of a serial port at runtime via either "set", > > or DHCP options. > > > > The new "serial-port" option accepts values of "1" through "4" for COM1 > > to COM4 respectively. For the serial options, rather than adding a > > configuration variable for each of them (baud, parity etc.) and > > complicate both the code and the configuration unncessarily, add a > > single, generic "serial-options" setting that accepts string values such > > as "115200" or "38400n81". It also accepts the special value "preserve" > > to preserve the previous configuration of the serial port. > > > > Note that this commit does _not_ enable CONSOLE_SERIAL by default, > > although that could potentially follow in a subsequent commit, given > > this would be now a no-op unless a port is explicitly configured. > > > > Signed-off-by: Faidon Liambotis <[email protected]> > > --- > Hello, > > I am waiting a long time for this functionality. Thank you for this patch. > This functionality is needed for my boot.salstar.sk. > > I like this functionality. Works well, I was able to set and change > serial port device and parameters. > > Just for backward compatibility it would be nice to predefine serial-port > and serial-options variables by settings from C #defines. My recompiled > binaries are not working as before you patch.
What is the different behaviour? > Need to set at least serial-port variable manually. How? > Michael, is is possible to add this or something similar to master branch? Please describe how a better iPXE should look like. Regards Geert Stappers _______________________________________________ ipxe-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ipxe-devel
