Angel Pons has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39863 )
Change subject: mb/google/glados: disable serial console by default ......................................................................
Patch Set 2:
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https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39863/1/src/mainboard/google/glados... File src/mainboard/google/glados/Kconfig:
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39863/1/src/mainboard/google/glados... PS1, Line 98: config CONSOLE_SERIAL : bool : default n
I still don't understand why a port doesn't exist (and how it makes a […]
The UART is still there on the board, but as there's no servo header, it will never be connected to anything in the vast majority of the cases. And, since logging to UART is slow, it is wasteful if nothing is going to receive the logs. Unlike desktop boards, connecting something to that UART is much harder... (let's recall that most people are afraid to use a soldering iron on the SPI flash chip, which is comparatively large)