On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 04:32:12PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:22:10AM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > > However, it was found while adding some x86 Chromebooks[1] to > > KernelCI that x86_64_defconfig lacked some basic things for > > anyone to be able to boot a kernel with a serial console enabled > > on those. > > Hold on, those are laptops, right? How come they do have serial console? > Because laptops don't have serial console - that has been the eternal > problem with debugging kernels on laptops.
Well, to be precise, they don't have *anymore*. I used to exclusively select laptops having a serial port given that I was using it daily with routers, until I had to resign when I abandonned my good old NC8000 :-/ Willy