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Re: More serial ports in EFI bootstrap?



On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 07:29:40AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> 
> Hence the new question is: do we have any hope of using a USB-to-serial
> adapter for kernel console? I have not looked at it yet, but I understand
> there will be the issue that the USB-to-serial adapter cannot work 
> before a lot of devices initialization. It would be nice to have it 
> working for single-user mode, and that should be possible.

Can (and should) we access the console via EFI interfaces in this case?

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