[coreboot] Intel Eagle Height evaluation board support

Myles Watson mylesgw at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 16:22:35 CEST 2009



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ron minnich [mailto:rminnich at gmail.com]
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Kevin O'Connor<kevin at koconnor.net> wrote:
> > I would think coreboot should always configure the legacy PCI bridge
> > bits and CONSOLE_VGA should just control whether or not coreboot tries
> > to write to the screen.  (Or, if there is a reason to not configure
> > the pci ranges, then make it a separate config item.)
> 
> It probably needs to be a config item then.

If Coreboot never writes to the console, that fixes it too.  I think that
was Stefan's preferred solution.  I think he's right that most of the time
the VGA console is useless for debugging.  All the tricky things happen
before that's available.

Thanks,
Myles





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