[coreboot] Serial Console only starts after reset

[Joseph Smith]

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:13:24 +0200, Stefan Reinauer
<stefan.reinauer at coresystems.de> wrote:
> On 6/15/10 1:38 PM, Joseph Smith wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I have a strange thing happening on the i810 port I am working on. When
I
>> power the board on i do not get any serial console from coreboot. VGA
> turns
>> on and works fine, but no serial output. The strange part is if I push
> the
>> reset button, serial console comes up and works fine until the next
power
>> off. The SuperIO is SMSC LPC47M102 and I am using
> superio/smsc/smscsuperio.
>> Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this before. Any help /
>> thoughts would be appreciated.
>>
> 
> Your Super IO chip is not initialized correctly. Compare the register
> output after reset and from cold start.

You mean with superiotool?

> Did you run the same coreboot image already when you pressed the reset
> button, or did you initially boot with the BIOS?
> 
Yes, same coreboot image.

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org