Re: debian/sparc serial console

[Mauricio <supremedalek@hotpop.com>]

At 18:54 +0200 10/1/03, Antonello wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 18:22:04 +0100
> Emmanuel Kasper <emmanuelk@soleil.org> wrote:
>
> >  > Um, with my SS10, ROM 2.25, this doesn't happen. I have to explicitely
> >  > set serial I/O if I want that. Simply unplugging keyboard (which works
> >  > nicely on another SS10 with an older ROM version) doesn't help here...
> >  I also have an Ultra10, and  when you boot, the PROM expects a
>  > console on the serial port if it doesn't detect the sun keyboard.
>
> Emmanuel,
> The SparcStation 10 is not an Ultra ;)
> However, my Ultra2 (with Woody) is completely headless and behaves the
> same way that you describe.. even the "keyboard not found, using tty for
> i/o" appears on the serial console (9600, N, 1, no flow control).

	I would also add that in my SS20 (ROM 2.25R) and in my SS1+, 
if I do not have a serial console connected to its serial port when I 
boot them keyboard-less, they refuse to write to the serial console 
once it is connected.  I do not know if the events are related or it 
is just a freak coincidence, but...