On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 12:14:55PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > 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). > > > > > > Trying to do something like creating customized PXE configs on the > > > server based on the MAC addresses of the blades that are "new" (or old) > > > would be an absolute nightmare as people swap blades between chassis, > > > add new ones, etc. all the time. > > > > > > > > > Please help me find a better way... :-( > > > > > > > It's strange that it's not possible to change the baud rate, but I'm not > > an expert of tty layer. A naive implementation could be patch the kernel > > to choose a well-known baud rate for your hw reading a revision register > > or something like that. > > I guess; I'd hate to have to modify the kernel like that though. Plus, > as far as I'm aware at the moment the only way to tell these blades > apart is through querying IPMI which would be a serious bummer to try to > do via the kernel, I believe. Maybe there's some other way to do it > that's simpler. > > Still hoping someone will say "all you have to do is XYZZY..." Anyone? 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. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
