Re: Booting over the serial port - how about parallel?

[Ollie Lho]

"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> 
> Bari Ari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> 
> > For embedded apps. USB is becoming a preferred method for booting since
> > serial ports are no longer included on the many of the latest chipsets.
> 
> Which generally makes using a serial console pretty hard doesn't it.
> Or in other words what do people use for a console on a board like
> that.  I admit I have heard interesting stories about ring buffers, in
> ram but that doesn't sound quite approriate either.
> 
> My memory has it that most serial ports are on superio chips anyway so
> I don't see their lack of inclusion on a chipset as a problem.
> 

No, for "next generation" SoC, they just don't put those "Legacy Stuff"
in
anymore. Expample, SiS 550.

Ollie