[LinuxBIOS] get some output on serial console of commel lv671 board, but not readable one

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Fri Jun 15 22:33:06 CEST 2007


* Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> [070615 21:51]:
> In the future, "svn diff" is much easier to use and more readable.
> 
> > +
> > +	device_t dev;
> > +	/* enable the decoding of superio ranges to the LPC interface */
> > +	dev = pci_locate_device(PCI_ID(0x8086, 0x24c0), 0);
> > +	pci_write_config16(dev, 0xE6, 0x3cff);
> >   
> 
> Please add this line:
> 
> pci_write_config16(dev, 0xE0, 0x10);
> 
> and see if it helps. If it doesn't, remove that block entirely, and try
> again (this shouldn't be necessary for basic early serial anyways)
 
Why do you think so? The ICH4 has LPC decodes and Serial port decodes
disabled on poweron. Or the datasheets lie. (Both is possible, in any
case)

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