[syslinux] EFI: HP + syslinux = crash

[Gene Cumm]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 8:06 AM, Oscar Roozen
<oscar.roozen at brightcomputing.com> wrote:

> On 05-08-15 12:05, Gene Cumm wrote:
>>
>>  > I recompiled with this in mk/devel.mk <http://devel.mk>:
>>  >  GCCWARN += -DDEBUG_PORT=0x2f8 -DCORE_DEBUG=1
>>
>> 0x2f8 is a BIOSism.

> Is this a problem? The example in the comments said 0x3f8 which is COM1.

It means that a BIOS IO port for a UART won't work for EFI.  No value
for DEBUG_PORT will do anything unless someone's got some translation
"glue" to take the attempts to open the UART and use an EFI handle
instead.

-- 
-Gene