Re: [coreboot] patch: set dbe62 to have com2 on com1 address

[Stefan Reinauer]

ron minnich wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Stefan Reinauer  wrote:
> > Can't we use 2f8 as base address here and put console on COM2?
> >
> > Reordering com ports is kind of evil. It will also change what is ttyS0
> >  in Linux..
>
> actually it won't. All I'm doing is making the one available com port
> that is connected BE COM1 -- base address, irq, everything. Linux
> won't know. Linux will use ttyS0 and
> as far as it is concerned, nothing is out of the ordinary. It all
> looks like COM2. COM1 is not even connected to anything on this
> platform.

Ah ok, that makes perfect sense.