[coreboot] [RFC] Universal panic-room serial console, for x86 BIOS bootblock
Andrew Goodbody
andrew.goodbody at tadpole.com
Tue Jul 12 08:15:24 CEST 2011
On 07/11/11 18:02, Pete Batard wrote:
> Comments? Questions? Shoot away...
Instead of attempting (and failing) to achieve universal support I would
rather see a framework that could easily be configured with the
appropriate SIO support and allow for board specific configuration if
necessary. This should remove a lot of the complexity that gives very
little advantage in trying for universal support. coreboot is built as
hardware specific and I see no reason why the panic room support should
not be the same. Choosing the SIO support to configure for the panic
room can be easily done from the output of superiotool.
Additionally if it was done in such a way that the serial transport
could be easily replaced by USB debug instead then we could really have
something that would be useful for new boards.
Andrew
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