On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Peter Stuge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > I said in the past that we shouldn't send stuff to serial before > > serial is set up, but my pleas have been ignored > > Yes. > > > > largely due to the fact that some hardware has working serial by > > default, so the problems were not seen in practice. > > Not me. I ignore your plea because I think it is important for > coreboot to communicate with the world very early on, and we should > encourage it by making sure the port is enabled immediately. Is there a way we can have it both ways? You, with your well-behaving hardware, can have serial immediately, and I with my misbehaving hardware, can store stage1 output in the console log buffer until it can be printed in initram? Look at it this way: right now, I have limited options: * Any init that can possibly fail with a message goes in initram. * Check from initram if stage1 init failed. * Assume stage1 init will never have any problems. All options suck :( -Corey
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