[coreboot] Early serial

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Mon Oct 13 05:04:30 CEST 2008


Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> I said in the past that we shouldn't send stuff to serial before
> serial is set up, but my pleas have been ignored

Yes.


> largely due to the fact that some hardware has working serial by
> default, so the problems were not seen in practice.

Not me. I ignore your plea because I think it is important for
coreboot to communicate with the world very early on, and we should
encourage it by making sure the port is enabled immediately.


//Peter




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