[LinuxBIOS] Support for recent chipset and powerful desktop CPU

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Fri Dec 1 11:43:11 CET 2006


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:53:39PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote:
> With USB serial console enabled in kernel and console=ttyUSB0, only
> can get boot message very late.
> From usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio. Before that
> only some lines in buffer.

Yeah. The debug device is only useful when the full USB stack isn't
up yet. It doesn't enumerate like other USB devices and can only
handle small transfers, but the EHCI doesn't need RAM to drive it.

I hope Stefan can do some tests with Eric's code.


//Peter




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