In message <[email protected]>, Scott Newell 
writes:

>>And am I the the only one who wonders how Poul-Henning Kamp gets all of
>>the knowledge about the "double-secret" Soekris features? :-)
>
>No you are not...BIOS dump and run strings over it?

Occams razor would prefer a much simpler explanation :-)

And it is indeed much simpler: I proposed that feature to Soren
back when the 5501 was still on the drawing board :-)

And the bios wouldn't show you any trace of it, because it's
implemented in the smallest microcontroller (8051 ?) I have seen
yet: the small eight-pin chip located between the DE-9 connector
and the miniPCI socket.

And yes, it seems to work at all speeds, probably does autobaud.

Poul-Henning

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