On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 at 11:16, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 10:57:49AM +0100, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > > Yes, but in practice on systems which have serial interfaces and on > > which it makes sense the console to be on a serial port, the UEFI > > would offer the option > > This differs from my experience. > > All desktop machines I have do have physical serial ports (most needed > an external connector added, but the connector on the mainboard was > there), and AFAICT none of them offers this in the firmware (or it is > well hidden). > > Martin
I didn't actually consider the usual desktops; I was thinking more about laptops - which generally wouldn't need it - and servers - which probably already have it. But you are right about the standard desktops, so the use case wouldn't be so narrow. -- ----