Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Huib van Wees <hvwees@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Grub on the serial console
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:35:00
Message-Id: cb389f7b0609190433p34c128a1qd77d9c69b95678c0@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-embedded] Grub on the serial console by "Nicolas MASSÉ"
1 Hmm This one is intresting.....
2 I think it should be done with-in the kernel..
3 I took a look in the kernel config, but you only can select other keyboards
4 ... It doesn't seem to be able to not support "normal" keyboards.
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6 I also have "serial console only" systems (via epia) and keyboard support
7 is on, but I'm not using it..
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10 --
11 Met vriendelijke groet / With kind regards,
12
13 H. van Wees
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15 The official Gentoo motto is, "If it moves, compile it."
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18 On 9/18/06, Nicolas MASSÉ <nicolas27.masse@×××××××.net> wrote:
19 >
20 > Hello,
21 >
22 > I'm trying to setup an embedded server using a VIA EPIA motherboard (x86).
23 > I
24 > chose to write the kernel messages to the serial console in order to throw
25 > away my screen and my keyboard. The next step was to configure grub to use
26 > the serial console. I did not know that was possible, but I found and
27 > followed : http://www.rajeevnet.com/linux/grub_serial_console.html
28 > And it worked !
29 >
30 > Now I have a little question : How can I disable the support for the
31 > keyboard
32 > and the standard console in the kernel ? It seems their support is always
33 > enabled on x86. Does anyone has a piece of advice ?
34 >
35 > Thanks !
36 >
37 > --
38 > Nicolas MASSÉ
39 > Pour récupérer ma clef GPG:
40 > gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x2A18C433
41 > Key fingerprint: 6621 FC23 5DC7 54BA B952 316A 50B1 BC3F 2A18 C433
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44 >