Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Richard Smith smithbone@gmail.com [060723 04:15]:
Stefan mentioned that a simple pci serial port adapter wouldn't really work since you have to go through the serial bus to find it.
And this was a wild guess. These adapters are available for below 10$. Whoever can try this, please do. I would assume that this needs some special initialization sequence at least as they are not connected via the SuperIO chip, or are they?
What about making a PCI card that ignored spec and always positively decoded port 80 or 90 or what ever we picked. Then you could stick it in and data would come out whenever outs to that port happened.
a port 80 card "with a memory" or a serial interface on the other side? Sounds good. And works on all machines that have slots. This way port80 codes would not have a distinct meaning but be bytes written to the console
It seems to be on the horizon that there is not "1 final solution" to this problem but rather "the most simple or cheapest solution for this or that purpose"
PCIe is the direction in the PC world. PCI will still be around for years mainly for MIPS/ARM SOC based network devices, routers, bridges etc.
PCIe Serial Cards http://www.serialgear.com/PCI-Express-Cards.html
One-port (9-pin) serial (16550 UART) x1 PCI Express card http://www.siig.com/product.asp?pid=1020&catid=14
I haven't come across a PCIe Minicard to serial adapter yet.
-Bari