Re: hardware with serial console

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 06:45:34PM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I'd like to make my development a bit less painful.
> > Serial console access would be nice.
>
> [ ... ]
>
> > do I need a special motherboard? it
> > doesn't seem to be a commonly advertised feature.
>
> Some server-class motherboards can to console over serial (for the BIOS too),
> but you have to look at the BIOS manual to see it

At the cheaper end of server-class, something like a HP microserver with
an ILO card should also work.  Note that I've used HP microservers and
I've used ILO/ILOM cards on x86 servers, but I haven't used the HP ILO.

Cheers,
Simon.