[coreboot] Adding information about the console(s) to lbtable
Patrick Georgi
patrick at georgi-clan.de
Mon Jan 14 18:56:33 CET 2008
Hi,
I work on adding information about the console to the lbtable, so that
the payload can parse it to figure out where it might find a user.
Right now, I only store TTYS0_BASE (that config variable) in a special
lbtable record (LB_TAG_SERIAL) and let the payload assume it should use
the serial port.
Before I go on, I have a couple of questions:
- Do we want to store more information than coreboot itself uses?
(eg. serial ports that aren't used, but known to exist)
- if so, what kind of information: io ports, irqs, memory areas, ...
- how should this information be mapped to devices?
- our own naming scheme (serial0, ...)
- adopting an existing one (com1, ttyS0, cua0, ..)
- How flexible should the console routing be?
- multiple target consoles
- multiple targets of the same type (eg. both COM1 and COM2)
I don't want to design a too flexible system (that no-one uses and is
only partially implemented by payloads), but I don't want to force
payloads to adapt to an ever-changing interface either. I also don't want
to work on this and scrap everything on pre-commit time, because the
consensus is that the design sucks, which is why I ask for opinions. :-)
Once this is settled, I'll implement it for lbv2 and lbv3 and add support
to the various utilities (lxbios and whoever else dumps the table).
Regards,
Patrick
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