[coreboot] EHCI debug port finder

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 09.09.2008 19:16, Joseph Smith wrote:
>
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:58:02 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
> <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> On 09.09.2008 04:23, Joseph Smith wrote:
>>     
>>>> I'd be interested in the output of my script on your machines and
>>>> whether it helped you find the right physical port.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Well it maybe helpfull for someone that has a bunch of physical ports,
>>>       
>> but
>>     
>>> my boards only have two physical ports and I already know which one is
>>>       
>> the
>>     
>>> debug port/first port. But I could run it for you if you want me to...
>>>
>>>       
>> That would be nice. Although the script was mainly written to find the
>> two debug ports on my machine with 14 ports, I hope it is useful for
>> smaller machines.
>>
>> By the way, do you have a debug cable?
>>
>>     
> No, that is a sore subject with me...
> Remember I wanted to build one, and I got shot down for that...
>   

Yes, I remember that discussion. The main point was that parts+shipping
would be almost the current net20dc price+shipping. My apologies if you
felt shot down, that surely was not intentional.

> I still can't justify the price, when a serial cable works just as good.
>   

Same here. I still hope we can somehow abuse the Geode CS5536 chip to
act as a debug device. That would probably be cheaper than building a
NET20DC from scratch, especially because Geode based boards can be had
rather cheap on ebay.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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