[coreboot] USB to Serial Converters

[David Hendricks]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:50 PM, zahra rahimkhani
<zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you very much.
> I compiled  coreboot  and seabios and got Microcode  and Fsp on it.
> But I did not have output on serial port.
> Could you tell me How set menuconfig that see outpot on serial port.
> Thanks,

It would be helpful if you can upload your .config somewhere such as
paste.flashrom.org.

My guess is that you don't have CONFIG_ENABLE_BUILTIN_COM1 selected
(under "Chipset"), which is an option you have to set in addition to
the stuff under "Console."

>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:58 AM David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Zahra,
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:49 AM, zahra rahimkhani
>> <zrahimkhani2014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Dear friends
>> >
>> > I compile seaBios and coreboot for Minnowboard max .
>> > but I do not see output on Serial port .
>> >
>> > Does  coreboot support USB to Serial Converters ?
>> > or how do  I add this feature ?
>>
>> The Minnowboard Max serial port does not go thru a USB to serial
>> converter. However, you may need to enable some config options.
>> Compare a sample config.txt from the supported mainboards page
>> (https://coreboot.org/status/board-status.html) to your .config file
>> to see if there is anything obviously missing.
>>
>> Also, do you have the microcode files from Intel? If not, you can
>> download them from
>> https://downloadmirror.intel.com/25063/eng/Baytrail_FSP_Gold4.tgz.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks ,
>> >
>> >
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