On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:33:00PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > Any reason why the serial port is not enabled in grub_serial_init() ? > > > > grub> terminal > > Available terminal(s): console > > Current terminal: console > > grub> serial > > grub> terminal > > Available terminal(s): serial console > > Current terminal: serial > > Perhaps because the serial command sets it up? Although I agree it > seems a bit weird that it works this way. Perhaps it should be > enabled with the same defaults from the beginning? > > One problem of initializing it is that hardware will be accessed, > while it might not be desirable.
Maybe we could move this to grub_term.init ? This way hardware is not accessed untill user requests a switch. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
