[coreboot] Alternate for serial port debug messages

[Vikram Narayanan]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Corey Osgood <corey.osgood at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Vikram Narayanan <vikram186 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using a DELL laptop. The superio used is
>> "Found Nuvoton WPCE775x / NPCE781x (id=0x03, rev=0x06) at 0x4e".
>>
>> Now the thing is there are no serial ports exposed outside in my laptop.
>> Is there any other way out to see the debug messages of coreboot.(If at
>> all coreboot supports my motherboard, or if I am planning to try if its
>> not there)
>
> Check lspci -v, you probably have a USB port that has debug port
> capability. You'll then need a USB debug cable.
I have an USB port that has debug capabilities (according to the lspci output)
Should I buy the one mentioned in this page
http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
or can I use a normal cable to debug?

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Thanks
Vikram