[syslinux] extlinux 6.03 serial console not responding to input

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/18/2015 10:14 AM, Andrew J. Schorr via Syslinux wrote:
> 
> I just tested again using Fedora 21 extlinux 6.03 and the same configuration
> (but without the HALT or CONSOLE directives).  It works fine on the video
> console, and it also works correctly over a physical serial port connection.
> So the problem seems to be confined to the IPMI serial-over-lan console.  I was
> surprised that it worked correctly on a physical serial port, since I thought
> the IPMI takeover of the serial port should be transparent to extlinux.
> 
> The last step is to test with the official binaries.  I'm going to try
> to figure out how to do that now.
> 

It should.  There is probably some kind of hardware bug.  This is sadly
common in UARTs, which ought to be really simple stuff...

	-hpa