On 2011.07.11 18:43, Patrick Georgi wrote:
My main concern is that SuperIO and serial is going away completely ("legacy-free hardware").
Alas, yes, native RS232 seems to be on the way out these days. Still (but I'm obviously biased here) we can support most of the non legacy-free hardware with less than 2 KB of code, so why not go for it? Requiring people to acquire hardware that duplicates a functionality they already have, and which we can support without too much effort, doesn't seem like the best approach to me. I'm also wondering how much real-estate a minimal xHCI stack will take in a panic-room bootblock.
But part of the reason I posted is also to find out what the current coreboot plans with regards to the panic-room implementation are, especially as there is a GSoC project for it. Has the set of feature, and how they should be implemented, already been agreed on, or is it still open for discussion?
Regards,
/Pete