[coreboot] [RFC] Universal panic-room serial console, for x86 BIOS bootblock

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Mon Jul 11 19:43:58 CEST 2011


Am Montag, 11. Juli 2011 19:02:03, Pete Batard schrieb:
> Comments? Questions? Shoot away...
My main concern is that SuperIO and serial is going away completely 
("legacy-free hardware").
When using PCI based boards (eg. extension stuff) we need to poke holes 
into the northbridge (and/or southbridge) to get access to them (ie. no 
generic solution either).

We might be better off with widely available USB2 and USB3 debug port 
tools and software support (and even that requires _some_ chipset 
specific setup to make the chipset react to it).


Patrick




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