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Re: Does grub2 support any PCI add-on card for serial port?
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Pavel Roskin |
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Re: Does grub2 support any PCI add-on card for serial port? |
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:47:35 -0400 |
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 02:00 -0700, Neo Jia wrote:
> hi,
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> My motherboard doesn't have any onboard serial port, so I am wondering
> if the Grub2 will support the PCI add-on card for serial port? I know
> that Grub will only support ISA device.
The current code would probe 4 ports recognized by BIOS. If BIOS
doesn't initialize PCI serial devices, then it won't work. The devices
would need to be configured and enabled. I don't think the necessary
code is present in GRUB. That's not to say that it cannot be written.
By the way, there is a nasty bug in the serial driver that affects
non-PC machines. I'm fixing it now.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin