n schembr wrote:> Can syslinux be upgraded to support more then 4 serial ports?
> Could syslinux be configured to auto probe for the first serial port?
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> Ubuntu 6.6.1 boots and can find the card at port ttyS4 and ttyS5.
> Voyage (debian) linux reset the pci serial card and assigns it to
ttyS0 and ttyS1
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> A few weeks back I asked about a boot loader with ttyUSB support. It was
pointed out that a USBserial stack would be very bloated. So I purchased a pci
serial IO card.
>
> ON boot up the card is configured to port 4 to avoid conflicts with the
on board hardware.
>
> Ubuntu 6.6.1 boots and can find the card at port ttyS4 and ttyS5.
>
> Voyage linux (debian) reset the pci serial card and assigns it to
ttyS0 and ttyS1
>
> syslinux and extlinux can not see the card at boot up. Can extlinux be
configured to auto probe and use the first serial port it finds?
>
> serial -1 115200
>
> Thank you for your hard work,
>
SYSLINUX will use the BIOS-assigned COM1-4 (0-3), otherwise you have to
put the I/O address directly in the serial statement:
serial 0xf400 115200
... will access a serial port at I/O port 0xf400.
-hpa