oxymoron@waste.org said:
It would be nearly as easy to generate output on the serial port using polled IO. Presumably all the developers have at least a serial port and a second machine that they're not ready to kill their BIOS on. I've recently written a small library of assembly functions to do this, include register and memory dump routines and a printf-like varargs function for debugging the bootloader of an embedded operating system I'm writing. The routines are currently written for MASM - if anyone would like them, I can make them available.
Sounds good. Could you mail them to me, and I'll put them up for FTP with the rest of the stuff.
Support for reblowing the flash from a serial port, rather than from a floppy, is going to be a damn sight easier to put together, so I suggest that we do that in the first instance, too.
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