I wonder if you would need this kind of console even for ddb work. If not, it probably would be simple to grab (the local) console in userland and serve it via a special telnetd (or sshd, or whatever) variant.
I.e. you get pure serial console untill userland takes over and attaches slip (or ppp, or what have you) and then continue to use console via telnet. If you need console for ddb, things get messy. Martin
