[powerstation-owners] SLOF serial console baud rate

Nathan Lynch ntl at pobox.com
Wed Dec 10 00:45:43 MST 2008


Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 22:57 -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I have the Bimini with SLOF.  Is there a way to tell the firmware to use a
> > different baud rate for the serial console?  
> > 
> > All my other serial consoles are at 115200, and when doing huge tracing
> > output on a serial console, the faster the better and it really makes a
> > difference.  I can of course still tell Linux to use 115200 for its serial
> > console, but it's nice to have a single console line and speed that always
> > works for both the firmware console and OS console.
> 
> Part of the problem is that the serial line is multiplexed with the BMC,
> so if it's changed, the BMC will no longer output the right stuff and
> will stop being able to snoop the power-off and power-on escape
> sequences ...

Do those escape sequences actually work on powerstation?  If so, what
are they?


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