Re: Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?

2010-05-03 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 22:25 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote: I would suggest asking Alan Cox - he if anyone would know. I lost the original mail and context above is missing some details. Anyway added to this mail. Thanks Sam. Alan, hope you don't mind a direct email. I'll cut down the original

Re: Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?

2010-05-03 Thread Alan Cox
Is there some other way to modify the baud rate of the console device from userspace once I figure out the right one? It would definitely be less than ideal since we'd lose all the boot output, except what we can get from dmesg _if_ the system boots, but it would be something. stty 57600

Re: Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?

2010-05-02 Thread Marco Stornelli
02/05/2010 02:02, Paul Smith wrote: I've looked at setserial and it supports a baud_base parameter but that doesn't appear to be what I want (I tried it anyway: changing it didn't work, my console output was still screwed up). Trying to do something like creating customized PXE configs on

Re: Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?

2010-05-02 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 11:58 +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: 02/05/2010 02:02, Paul Smith wrote: I've looked at setserial and it supports a baud_base parameter but that doesn't appear to be what I want (I tried it anyway: changing it didn't work, my console output was still screwed up).

Can I manage/modify console baud rates from userspace?

2010-05-01 Thread Paul Smith
Hi all. I need some advice on an issue that just cropped up. We have a Linux embedded image (current kernel is 2.6.31-based) that we are booting up on blade systems using PXE to obtain the kernel image, the kernel boot line parameters, and an initrd from a server. On these systems we REALLY