* Ronald G Minnich rminnich@lanl.gov [060703 22:45]:
yes, but ... that's how it goes. Very few people want to see linuxbios anyway.
We do. But after our job is done, it should not be visible, indeed.
Many years ago I did an experiment, and was able to set things up so that linuxbios log buffer was picked up by the kernel, so you could do a dmesg and see linuxbios messages. I think this might be useful to revive.
Do you have a pointer on this one? It indeed sounds very useful.
I just don't see us putting a fully capable usb stack into linuxbios, it will not work as well as the linux usb stack.
Not a USB stack. That would be crap, and it would not work.
Eric pointed this out and I did not even notice what he was saying:
EHCI has a workaround method called the "USB2 Debug port for legacy free machines"
This debug port can be used by simple inb/outb sequences, not more complex than serial io.
According to this document
http://www.intel.com/technology/usb/download/DebugDeviceSpec_R090.pdf
what you need is a debug device, which mostly looks like a usb style null modem cable. No idea where to get this hardware though.