[rescue] Solaris 8 Differences

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Monday, February 4, 2002 at 11:38:03 (-0500), Dave McGuire wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Solaris 8 Differences
>
> On February 3, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > > I mean that is uses the OpenBoot console. Which is painfully slow on
> > > > an LX, a bit like using a 9600 terminal. It is just completely
> > > > orthogonal to the blindingly (in comparison) fast and efficient
> > > > framebuffer consoles you get with linux.
> > > 
> > > ok, now maybe this just seems silly to me, but do you want to know why there
> > > is no good text framebuffer support?  it's REALLY SIMPLE.  if you are only
> > > going to use text, PUT A SERIAL CONSOLE ON THE MACHINE.
> > 
> > Perhaps, but that's not much faster.  :-)
> 
>   How fast do you need it to be for booting and OS loading?  That's
> about all people should use consoles for anyway.

There's one situation where serial consoles (and perhaps on some
keyboard/display consoles too) can be entirely too slow, and that's when
they're flow-controlled!  You certainly don't want syslog sending very
much to any console that might accidentally be left scroll-locked.  :-)

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