[SerialICE] Porting to new boards

[Joseph Smith]

On 06/21/2010 01:00 PM, Myles Watson wrote:
> I'd like to have SerialICE working on my Tyan boards, but I don't see
> any output from the serial port after my porting attempt.
>
> I took a step back and tried Qemu and SimNOW.  I see the SerialICE
> prompt, but I don't know how to test that interface.
>
> SerialICE v1.5 (Jun 21 2010)
>
not sure what you mean test it? Have you read the README's? If your 
getting the prompt your good to go :-)

>>
>
> I was expecting to be able to enter some commands at the prompt, to
> read/write memory locations and registers.
>
yes, why can't you?

> I'm attaching the patches I am working with:
> emulators.diff: Add trivial support for qemu and copy support for
> SimNOW from Tyan s2912 since they use the same SuperIO chip.
> pci_read.diff: Add pci_read functions, since my Tyan s2895 Serial init
> code uses them (copied from Coreboot)
> tyan.diff: Add code for s2895 (s2892 is just a copy of s2895 right now)
> debug_romstrap.diff: Make the romstrap end up looking like Coreboot's romstrap.
>
> Status:
> Qemu&  SimNOW give me a prompt, but I don't know how to interact with it.
> Tyan s2895 - No output.
>
what is the superio on your s2895?


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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
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