> BTW, I just discovered that BREAK does not drop to PROM in SILO.
> Maybe that should be suggested to the SILO developers. If they
> are doing I/O via PROM code (I suspect likely) I'm surprised it
> isn't automatically there. It should also accept a special boot
> name "prom" to go to PROM as well. Then, maybe this can be
> configured (I haven't looked).
>
> I think our discussion regarding serial break is just how it
> should behave. I think the consensus is that there is not
> 100% consensus on what it should do, but rather, it should be
> configurable.
These /proc/sys/sysrq and /proc/sys/stop-a may be the answers to our
problems. If they are configurable as Phil suggests they are, then
we're set and our squabling is done.
Unfortunately, I still haven't gotten a successful install to try it
out.
Charles
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