On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:53 AM, Andrew wrote: > Soren, I understand why the E6xx integrated video is not useful because of > the supervisory LPC processor, and you would have to implement a video BIOS. > Have you considered using the supervisor MCU as the terminal emulator to > generate the VGA video? It could pass through the serial data and only > inject characters if a PS2 keyboard were used. Looking at the MicroVGA, > we've come a long way from Don Lancaster's TV Typewriter (I still have the > "Cookbook," dog eared, packed away in a box some where).
Hmm. I understand that your needs are different, but to me, the comBIOS combined with the utter lack of video output and keyboard input on these boxes is a huge selling point. It raises the Soekris boards to the realm of serious network appliance (whose console gets connected to one of my console servers), rather than merely one of the large array of PCs masquerading as the real thing. I do understand that it might be possible to satisfy both uses, though, at the (possibly modest) cost of some additional complexity and power requirements. But driving VGA just seems so out of place, here. I'd say you'd be much better going with one of the external solutions mentioned (to include building something inside the case yourself), but keep in mind that you lose all ability to capture and log output or remotely maintain the box if all you use is VGA/kbd and a KVM. Even if that doesn't appear to be useful right now... - Geoff _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
