[coreboot] Seeing the output messages
Joseph Smith
joe at settoplinux.org
Wed Feb 16 19:09:23 CET 2011
On 02/16/2011 05:15 AM, ali hagigat wrote:
> Joe,
> I wonder if you can answer my questions if you really know about them.
> I do not have any mother board with Coreboot support now. I am
> reviewing the code statically.
> Regards
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Joseph Smith<joe at settoplinux.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:37:15 +0330, ali hagigat<hagigatali at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>> How a program is traced in Coreboot? by serial port? or initialization
>>> of internal graphics cards? What about those boards with external
>>> graphics cards? When it does printk, to what device the message is
>>> actually sent?
>>>
>>
>> Why don't you try it and find out!
>>
Of course I do. I have written code for several of boards in the
coreboot tree. And several more I am working on. printk output goes to
the serial console until vga starts and then it goes to both until the
OS takes over.
Maybe you should get a coreboot running on a board.... no way better to
learn than to get your hands dirty, then maybe you will stop asking all
these silly newbie questions.
--
Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org
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