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Re: Preserving early console output (pre-Copyright stuff)



On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 11:44:52AM -0400, Matthew Mondor wrote:
> 
> Sometimes I've been thinking about this as more and more hardware don't
> ship with RS232 anymore.  Is there a relatively common BIOS interface
> which would allow, even if non-efficiently, to use a USB port as a
> serial device without too much code?  If so, possibly that a special
> usb-serial bootblock could be using that sometime in the future?

It is probably easier to get the data into ethernet packets than USB!

        David

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