[coreboot] [PATCH][cbv2]Add serial port information to lbtable

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Wed Jan 16 19:20:18 CET 2008


Am Mittwoch, den 16.01.2008, 16:03 +0100 schrieb Uwe Hermann:
> Have you checked lxbios continues to work after the changes?
No, will do.

> I think not all of the boards define it, and even if they did,
I'll fix that.

Thanks

> TTYS0_BASE implies COM1, which is not always what you want.
> We need a mechanism to allow other ports here (COM2, COM3, COM4).
I won't work on infrastructure improvements for v2 if I can help it.

> Yes, I think it's just a name, in theory you could assign any value
> to TTYS0_BASE, but you get the point.
"ttys0" is rather meaningless by itself. What if it means "0th serial
port we use" (emphasis on the last two words)? A stable name would be
"COM1" in my opinion...


Regards,
Patrick Georgi





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