Re: Faking a Sun keyboard

--- On Tue, 8/30/11, Michael Vergallen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 07:58 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> > =

> > I need to fake the keyboard to prevent OBP from taking
> over Serial Port
> > A and turning it into the defacto console.
> I see ...but why ? what application do you have in mind
> that needs this ? because after booting the machine you can
> re-use the port without problem.
> =

> Would it not be simpler to hack OBP and assign a fake port
> to send it=B4s data to ?


Good question. :)  The reason is that there will be hardware plugged into t=
he serial port that is constantly sending data (hardware logger).  If OBP g=
rabs the port first for console, it's going to receive random characters an=
d could interpret those as commands.

Hacking OBP is an interesting idea but I don't want to eliminate the possib=
ility of having the serial console in case I need it one day.  Bypassing th=
e serial console with an external hardware device is much simpler to revers=
e.