On 7/31/06, Dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're not going to add a microcontroller to the board. Do > you expect BIOS code to take over and present a configuration tool via > serial? I was thinking the configuration tool would be a Unix utility?
Oh! Are you saying that you want to fully boot into the OS without a working console, and have the serial port on the card act as a system console? Is this just to cater to systems that cannot function with no graphics card? And let's say the graphics card boots with an unusable video mode. Why is our serial port any better than the one built into the host computer? That can be a console as well.
But you don't have to have a terminal with a rs-232 port. You could have a laptop with a native rs-232 port, or a USB port and a USB to rs-232 adapter and a terminal emulator program, typically called cu or tip.
While it's not unreasonable to expect someone to have a laptop, what's more likely they'll have lying around? A VGA monitor or a laptop? I'm not trying to be argumentative. I'm just saying that for every instance, we're requiring the user to have SOME sort of extra piece of equipment. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
