[coreboot] thincan serial support

Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Fri Feb 22 03:56:51 CET 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 08:36:56AM -0800, ron minnich wrote:
> I need to do ttl to rs232 for the thincan.

The DIY standard is Maxim MAX232CPE or the like, with four
electrolytic capacitors it works just fine, but requires hacking
with the soldering iron.


> Anyone have a better choice?

The ready-made cables are of course less work.


> a Kconfig option

I've thought about Kconfig vs. dts. I'm now leaning towards the dts
only being used for hardware description and Kconfig for the rest.


//Peter




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