Re: [coreboot] Serial Console option (was Coreboot fails to initialize on ASUS A8V-E SE)

[ron minnich]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Myles Watson  wrote:
> > yes I can confirm that the Kconfig build method work for me too. As
> > Rudolf said I had to disable VGA ROM as well otherwise it will came up
> > with a exception error. It's necessary to have "Serial port console
> > output" set to yes or it won't compile.
>
> I'm not sure it makes sense for Coreboot to have that option.  It only takes
> a few #if defined() statements to make it compile, but I'd rather see the
> option disappear.  Users that want more speed can choose a different console
> verbosity.
>
> Comments?

Assuming all machines now and forever will have serial console ... I
am pretty sure that's an unsafe assumption.

ron