Hello! Here's the issue: Dating over a period of about two to three weeks, and averaging about three messages per time period about two years ago September to October, happen to be a serial about just that.
The group was discussing the issue concerning the impending (by that time) disappearance of the serial port from the selected boards. And they were looking into a series of interesting hacks, one was applying the technology behind the PS/2 port, one other concerned a floppy drive connector. And even the parallel port was considered. Even the SMBUS was looked at.
As of this past week the links in the messages have died so there isn't a reference for the gizmo described that enables a PS/2 keyboard style connector to be connected to a USB style port. Or perhaps the reverse is true. Using it someone could plug a USB key or flash drive into a PS/2 keyboard connector.
As I understand it, it looks something like the USB Debug device described sometime ago, except for the fact that one end contained the PS/2 connection.
This concerned the V3 port or build or release of Coreboot. Since the reasons why I initially got involved with the entire product from its early days as LinuxBIOS to right now with everyone working with different ideas for Coreboot moving towards a reality are summed up in that serial I decided to label it. Basically folks I have an interest in strange things like that, and of course regular computer electronics as such I decided today to ask about it. ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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Gregg Levine