Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:14:44 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Kedar <kedar@asacomputers.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial I/O. Message-ID: <1019.885942884@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:33:15 PST." <2.2.32.19980127223315.017e413c@gw1>
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In message <2.2.32.19980127223315.017e413c@gw1>, Kedar writes: >>> > 3) The BIOS serial communications should require no fancy communications >>> > protocols, ie. we should be able to use a dumb terminal. >>This is quite specialised; depending on what you want to do with the >>BIOS you might be able to live without this if you set it up right >>beforehand. > > O.K. We are thinking of having somebody customize the BIOS for this >purpose. Using SBC's. Would rather use regular motherboards. Never done >it, don't know how difficult/easy it is. Actually, why not make an isa card with some dual-port ram at the right addresses so it looks like a videocard (CGA!) and a simple microcontroller driving a RS-232 port to the dumb terminal ? This would work with standard motherboards... (I'll buy one or two if you make them !) -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"
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