On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:33:00PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
DOS resets the serial ports reported by the BIOS. This can mess up
debugging and timing when the serial baud rate changes on the debug
port. The new "etc/advertise-serial-debug-port" option allows one to
suppress the debug serial port from the normal list of serial ports
the BIOS reports to DOS.
FYI, I have pushed the above series (as well as the encodeint.py,
kconfig updates, and CBFS alternate location patches) to the seabios
master repo.
-Kevin