Re: [coreboot] Option ROM to redirect console to serial on prioprietary BIOSes

[Jordan Crouse]

On 16/09/08 10:14 +0200, Paul Millar wrote:
> *delurk*
>
> Hi,
>
> I saw this announced on freshmeat:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/sgabios/
>
> I guess it's not terribly interesting to coreboot (which already does serial 
> output, right?).
>
> What might be interesting is there's a negotiation stage where a serial device 
> tells the BIOS what dimensions it would prefer.  This might be useful for 
> libpayload, when running on headless machines, to adjust its output to match 
> that of the serial device.

Indeed.  Thanks for pointing this out.  It is good to see people
still hacking on the old school BIOSen.

Jordan