On 15.03.2007 20:37, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:51:41PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote: >> Plugging such a microcontroller onto a soldered on flash chip with >> a plcc piggyback clip or a plcc socket/plug combination would make >> an additional flash chip unnecessary, and allow the device to be >> ultimately used. > > I think we want to experiment with this to see what we can expect to > work. It would be neat, I know it's done in some systems (PS2 > modchips) but I don't know how well PC chipsets would cope.
Would be great if this works out. >> another idea would be to detect host writes to the bios chip or >> some other memory area and interpret that as console. This is >> interesting for those boards that have no serial port anymore. We >> used a USB debug device for some of those (80$) but not all boards >> have debug capable USB controllers. > > Yes, this feature is also a must IMO. Agreed. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
