David Evans wrote:
> 
>   Any chance that we could have a boot flag defined that would use the
> serial console even if graphics hardware is installed?  Would make life

Well, you already have the mechanism that I mentioned for boot:  just
send a break down the console line and the KA630 ROM will switch to the
serial console.  This will work for boot and the other standalone
stuff.  There's got to be a flag in console meemory for this and the
kernel can just use that to check (but that's not implemented yet).

OTOH, if you want a separate mechanism, I suppose that can be done too. 
When somebody tells me what bit can be used for this I can probably add
the necessary code.  Of course then the ROM console I/O still goes to
the graphics hardware and that might be a bit annoying.

> easier if you don't want to hook up more monitors.

Ah yes, more monitors... my VR299 is already taking up space that I need
for other things.  

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