On Saturday 29 July 2006 14:57, Richard Smith wrote:

> The other is a forward looking type thing where we are trying to
> figure out how we are going to port to the next generation of
> motherboards that don't have a serial port.
> At POR we don't have any [1] RAM available and bringing up a RAM
> controller is hard work.  Serial port debug messages are crucial.
>
> So we need some sort of dirt simple TTY output mode where all thats
> necessary to produce characters on the screen is OUT calls to an IO
> address.
>
> The idea of using PCI serial cards has also been proposed and we are
> looking into that.  (Got to find a good source for some with linux
> drivers)

It sounds like an OGD1 and an RTL guru are exactly what you need. :P

Peter

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