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