Re: New Partition Type

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 8 May 1999 20:58:15 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 9 May 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> OR, if you have a nasty bug,
> then you can use the serial console, and you
> only need a small device driver for the oops report.
> (But you need a second computer).

Or a serial printer.

> - we can even try to implement a complete console on the parallel
> port. Obviously, output only ;=).

Ahem. <URL:ftp://ftp.torque.net/pub/parport/patch-2.2.7-tmw4.gz> does
this. (And it isn't so obviously output only: the parallel port can do
reverse transfers too, you know..)

> We don't need fancy graphics, so the printer driver should be very
> simple.

It is.

Tim.
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