[coreboot] Serial Debugging.

[David Houston]

>
> Which board are you working with?


Sun Workstation 20 Ultra M2, Board has a header (9 pin) which I have
attached my IDC serial header to.

You can connect that to a laptop or other modern PC without a serial

port, in order to get a serial port which applications can use



However, that USB thing is only useful on the host system, where you

do development, compiling, save logs, and so on. It is not useful on

the target side. There you must have an onboard serial port.


My development board EVGA nforce 6 based board with no onboard serial.
A  cross-over serial cable, is that the same of different to a null modem
cable.

Many thanks again

Dave
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cranky at archlinux.us


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se> wrote:

> David Houston wrote:
> > I have finally got round to making myself a IDC Serial header for
> > debugging purposes.
>
> Which board are you working with?
>
>
> > http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=29968 <--- would it be
> > ok to get a male to female converter for this adapter and will it
> > still work ok with coreboot?
>
> You can connect that to a laptop or other modern PC without a serial
> port, in order to get a serial port which applications can use. You
> also need a cross-over serial cable, not just a gender changer.
>
> However, that USB thing is only useful on the host system, where you
> do development, compiling, save logs, and so on. It is not useful on
> the target side. There you must have an onboard serial port.
>
>
> //Peter
>
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