Re: hardware with serial console

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

FWIW my Fujitsu servers in the device probe show:

pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0: vendor 8086 product a149 (rev. 0x31)
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 06:45:34PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > =
> 
> > > I'd like to make my development a bit less painful.
> > > Serial console access would be nice.
> >
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > > do I need a special motherboard? it
> > > doesn't seem to be a commonly advertised feature.
> >
> > Some server-class motherboards can to console over serial (for the BIOS =
> too),
> > but you have to look at the BIOS manual to see it
> 
> At the cheaper end of server-class, something like a HP microserver with
> an ILO card should also work.  Note that I've used HP microservers and
> I've used ILO/ILOM cards on x86 servers, but I haven't used the HP ILO.
> 
> Cheers,
> Simon.
>