On 2017-01-29, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > >> On 2017-01-28, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> >>> (Although if I were to design an operating system, I don't know if I >>> would bother with controlling terminals, job control or chirping >>> modems.) >> >> I've been using serial ports on Unix for 35 years, and maintaining >> serial drivers for Linux for almost 20. Many days, it seems like the >> tty/serial API in Unix is the rug under which all the ugly dirt got >> swept... >> >> [...] >> >> It's really pretty impressive how orthogonal they did manage to make >> things. > > I *have* been longing for a serial console in linux distros.
Well, all it takes is a tweak to the bootloader to add a kernel "command-line" parameter... > That would make it possible to set up virtual machines from ISO > images automatically as virtualization environments can emulate a > serial interface with an SSH connection. As it stands, such > automation requires ugly, brittle VNC tricks. -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
