[Techteam] XO-1.75 OpenFirmware serial terminal

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Wed Mar 28 17:37:10 EDT 2012


On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 09:50:07AM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 5:52 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> > This is a serial terminal implementation for an XO-1.75 using Open
> > Firmware.
> >
> > Allows a laptop to be a host for a target laptop through a crossover
> > cable.
> 
> That's a very cool trick. So only XO-1.75 can be the host, but any XO
> model can be the target?

Yes.  I've only written the program for XO-1.75, but it could be ported
also to XO-1.5 and XO-1.  Let me know if that is interesting.  XO-1.5
has a much faster Open Firmware scroll rate, so would be a better unit
to use.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/



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