Subject: Re: No console no screen diskless install
To: Bruce ONeel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/18/2005 12:46:18
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:15:38PM +0200, Bruce ONeel wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
>  
> > But I'm not sure the keyboard is functionnal if no screen is connected.
> > On sparc, if the POST doesn't detect a keyboard or a screen, it switches
> > to serial port A automatically.
> 
> 
> On my SS4 the critical bit seems to be the keyboard.  It cares not
> whether
> or not the screen is actually attached.

It probably depends on the openfirware version, and maybe prom settings.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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