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Enabling a USB Serial Console on Linux (2022)
You've somehow ended up reading Matt Ray's ramblings.
It works without requiring a screen, keyboard or networking which makes it helpful for debugging embedded devices and clusters of broken laptops and headless Arm boxes (which is my home lab). Physical and virtual consoles are connected to serial ports and the terminal with the application getty(“get tty”), presenting the user with a login prompt. Roger Meier’s CoolTerm serial port terminal application was simple and worked like a charm.
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