[syslinux] boot... round 2

[Gene Cumm]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:39 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:
> On 06/30/2015 01:52 PM, Gene Cumm via Syslinux wrote:
>>
>> I should restate: A serial port that responds on BIOS IO port 3F8h
>> that can reliably operate at 115200 8n1 may be necessary.  A USB
>> serial port that the BIOS doesn't bother setting up for IO port 3F8h
>> is just random hardware.
>>
>
> A USB serial port looks completely different from a UART serial port, so
> that is not really an option.

I wasn't sure if it's possible (albeit a lot of work that probably
hasn't been done/implemented by anyone) to have a BIOS use a USB
serial adapter and emulate a traditional UART.

-- 
-Gene