[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

Enrico ebutera at users.sourceforge.net
Tue May 29 16:52:37 BST 2012


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan at bobich.net> wrote:
> On 05/29/2012 04:35 PM, Enrico wrote:
>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Gordan Bobic<gordan at bobich.net>  wrote:
>>> You haven't made a case for why you'd actually need USB when you have
>>> serial console accessible via ssh.
>>
>> I'll answer to this first because i have not understood why you are
>> being so aggressive, we are just sharing our experience and ideas.
>
> I'm not being aggressive at all - I'm just curious WRT what use you
> think per-node USB would be compared to serial over the network.
>
>> If you want to think that usb was created for serial console access,
>> well....be it.
>
> I have a sneaky suspicion that at some point this particular debate
> crossed over between *TX boards and blades. If you're talking about *TX
> boards, then sure, USB is useful.

I was not talking about a particular form factor, but i agree that the
ideal solution would be EOMA blades and i agree that in this case USB
is useless.

Enrico



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