[coreboot] Option ROM to redirect console to serial on prioprietary BIOSes

Jordan Crouse jordan.crouse at amd.com
Tue Sep 16 18:02:43 CEST 2008


On 16/09/08 10:14 +0200, Paul Millar wrote:
> *delurk*
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I saw this announced on freshmeat:
> 
> 	http://code.google.com/p/sgabios/
> 
> I guess it's not terribly interesting to coreboot (which already does serial 
> output, right?).
> 
> What might be interesting is there's a negotiation stage where a serial device 
> tells the BIOS what dimensions it would prefer.  This might be useful for 
> libpayload, when running on headless machines, to adjust its output to match 
> that of the serial device.

Indeed.  Thanks for pointing this out.  It is good to see people
still hacking on the old school BIOSen.

Jordan

-- 
Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.





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