On Saturday 29 July 2006 19:42, Timothy Miller wrote: > On 7/29/06, Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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 > > > > It will work for me but the price tag of the OGD1 will be above what > > most of the 2nd tier LinuxBIOS people will be willing to pay. But its > > a start. > > If there's a real contribution they can make to the OGP or this in > some way contributes to the over-all growth of the OGP, we can give > them developer pricing for OGD1 boards. Generally speaking, we only > want to offer developer pricing to individuals who have ALREADY made > some contribution to the OGP (even if it's relatively minor). But we > can make exceptions for good causes and for people who contribute > significantly later. > > > I do like the idea of throwing a serial port on the card though. > > Hopefully there will be enough gates leftover to do something like > > that down the road. > > An RS232 controller is trivial and is often a code sample that comes > with Verilog simulators. >
Presumably we'd want to emulate something (At the register level) like an 8250? Hamish.
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