[syslinux] Multi serial support

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Tue May 31 18:23:02 PDT 2011


On Tue, 31 May 2011, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> On 05/31/2011 05:54 PM, Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> So does multi serial support now work in syslinux 4 today ?
>
> No.  It's still a nontrivial project and there have been many other
> things with higher priority.

Fair enough.


>> If not, what does syslinux do if more than one serial directive is used in
>> the configuration ? Use the last one listed ?
>
> Yes.

That explains why it always worked for us ;-) On all our hardware the 
'virtual' serial port was the only one, or the last one in the list.

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