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Re: Bug#394970: finish-install: [powerpc64] Add support for IBM serial consoles (hvc and hvsi)



Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:

> Would it not be better to use the variable in rootskel to detect that the
> terminal is a serial terminal, namely those who delcare themselves to be :
>
>   TERM_TYPE=serial in rootskel/src/lib/debian-installer/detect-console-linux

I think it can be an interesting option to investigate. How deeply
would be the patch to do that?

> Furthermore, i have personally found out that it is interesting to enable
> a serial console in /etc/inittab even in non-serial installs, Maybe a debconf
> question of low priority would allow this to be preseeded or set in expert
> installs ? Maybe too late for etch now, but still something to keep in mind.

Interesting. That would help indeed.

But maybe instead of enabling it by default or using a debconf
question would be eaiser to use a command line param to enable
it. What do you think?

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