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Re: ARM d-i port - someone add me to the alioth project please



+++ Karsten Merker [04-02-24 09:31 +0100]:

ah, hello Karsten - got home eventually then? How's the ankle? :-)

> 
> Generally it can work on a serial console, but there are still several
> bugs:
> - you have to select US/English, choosing another language like French
>   or German will cause a complete hang on serial console
> - kbd-chooser only works if there are also loadable keymaps included,
>   even though they do not make sense for a system with serial console
> - sometimes there are display problems / stranger characters on serial
>   cnsole

OK, that's good enough for getting something going, I hope. What is needed
to make UTF-8 consoles work properly? kernel changes or D-I changes?

Wookey
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