[LinuxBIOS] Specifications

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Jun 15 13:31:49 CEST 2007


* Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> [070615 02:24]:
> So let me ask you this - under the proposal, what if I choose to tell
> the payload that the baud rate is 0.  Does the payload then pick a sane
> baud rate of its own, and program the 16550 itself, or does it collapse in
> a heap and claim that LinuxBIOS didn't work because the serial settings
> are not sane?
 
> If its the first scenario - then I'm on board.  Its the second that I am
> worried about.

It should not collapse of course. Maybe LB should not report 0 but just
dont report any baud rate at all in this case.

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