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

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Bob Drzyzgula wrote:

> Don't most modern chipsets also support I2C? I would
> imagine that this would be a decent interface to use
> instead of a traditional serial port. If necessary,
> one could probably place a UART on the I2C bus. [? I
> briefly tried to find a stock I2C UART but came up empty;
> I suppose that it would be reasonably straightforward to
> build one out of something like a Philips 87LPC762, which
> incorporate I2C and UART hardware together with 8051 logic
> to mediate between them, and cost around $1 to $2 each.]

>From what I've seen I2C is a coming thing in "off board" management.

ron