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

Pete Batard pete at akeo.ie
Tue Jul 12 14:05:48 CEST 2011


On 2011.07.12 07:05, Patrick Georgi wrote:
> "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.

I'd tend to agree that, if you already have coreboot working, fallback 
is likely to be good enough.

On the other hand, for all the platforms that do not have coreboot yet, 
a panic-room could be quite useful...

Regards,

/Pete




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