[coreboot] [RFC] Universal panic-room serial console, for x86 BIOS bootblock

Patrick Georgi patrick at georgi-clan.de
Tue Jul 12 08:05:56 CEST 2011


On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:38:29 -0500, Scott Duplichan wrote:
> This is an important subject because recovery is one of the few major
> features of a commercial BIOS that coreboot+SeaBIOS lacks. I tried 
> the
> sample on ASRock E350M1 and it did not work. One reason is needed LPC
"Panic Room" features won't be too useful for flash recovery.
With partial flash updates and the fallback/normal bootblock it should 
be possible to build a recoverable update mechanism.


Patrick




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