On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bryan E. Chafy wrote:
Although one gotcha would be anything that's timing related. Memory/IO access proxied through the serial port would also be orders of magnatude slower. When the DRAM test completes, we'll all be dead :) Also, rom bios code memory references would have to be excluded as well as anything that could upset the serial port. What about handling stuff like cpu/mmu state transitions (ie real mode to protected mode to unreal mode, etc)? Cache? Perhaps the proxied memory access could be limited to just a certain range (if known).
My current understanding of how linuxbios works is very limited but, is there an absolute requirement that this should occur over a serial port?
Best regards
Peter K
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