David S. Miller writes:
 > 
 > On a similar note, has anyone out there had any experience with using
 > the serial port as the console and doing boot prompt stuff
 > remotely. If anyone else has any success with this I'd love to hear
 > about it.
 > 
 > Basically what I want to be able to do is hook the serial port of a
 > sunos machine to my netbsd/sparc machine and be able to kermit on the
 > sunos machine to the netbsd one to work at the bootprompt and use that
 > as a console, I think you guys get the idea. :-) babble babble

Yes, I have done this. Works fine. Never tried using a serial console
on a machine with a framebuffer and keyboard, but it should work if in
the prom you setenv the right input and output devices.

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Dan.