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From: Christian Ruppert <idl0r@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changing default serial-console definition in inittab
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:31:00
Message-Id: 20120427182917.GA4370@odin.qasl.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Changing default serial-console definition in inittab by "Diego Elio Pettenò"
1 On 04/27/12 at 10:29AM -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
2 > Since I've been configuring a couple of systems lately for remote
3 > access, which include configuring the serial console, I'm wondering if
4 > it would be a good idea to change our inittab so that the default
5 > (commented out) definition of the serial consoles is a bit more.. modern.
6 >
7 > The current definition sets the console at 9600 baud, using vt100
8 > emulation; I think most of us who configure it, do so at 115200 baud,
9 > and some prefer vt-utf8 over vt100 (the two are partially compatible as
10 > far as I can tell).
11 >
12 > Of the two systems I've configured ­– a SuperMicro server which is the
13 > new tinderbox host, and an HP for work – both have the default IPMI
14 > configuration for Serial-over-LAN set at 115200, and the HP also had
15 > VT-UTF8 by default for emulation (SuperMicro defaulted to vt100 but
16 > still allows utf8).
17 >
18 > Comments?
19 >
20 > --
21 > Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
22 > flameeyes@×××××××××.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
23 >
24
25 +1 on the 115200 baud but I'm not sure about the VT-UTF8 even though I'd prefer
26 it too.
27
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Christian Ruppert
31 Gentoo Linux developer, Bugzilla administrator and Infrastructure member
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