Hi!
> > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot
> > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using
> > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port?
> >
> > The driver itself has to provide support for serial console. If the USB
> > serial driver doesn't (I don't know) it won't work. Check the config
> > options for USB serial, if it doesn't offer an option for console on USB
> > serial port then you're out of luck.
> >
> > Unless the USB serial driver in some strange way hooks into the standard
> > serial driver, but then someone more knowledgeable should answer that
> > question.
>
> Nope, it doesn't specifically support the CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE with all
> of the register_console code, etc., so this will not work, sorry.
>
> But it's something that I would gladly take a patch for :)
Forget it. It is almost impossible, unless you can do usb without
interrupts. (You can't).
Pavel
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