[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] Document POST codes emitted by LinuxBIOS

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Sat Mar 3 18:41:13 CET 2007


* joe at smittys.pointclark.net <joe at smittys.pointclark.net> [070303 17:51]:
> I did have a question about the post codes. Do they post to the  
> parallel port as well? Just wondering because my embedded board does  
> not have aa pci slot. It does have a parallel port though. And the  
> post card I have is for either parallel or pci.

No, there's an option to post them to serial, though.

All in all, POST codes are pretty useless though, since you have a real
serial console, which can give you clear text errors just with the same
effort.

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