On Friday 27 March 2009 00:52:36 Andriy Gapon wrote: > > USB won't work for that purpose. It requires far too much kernel support > > to be useful after a panic. > > Erik, > in fact, there is a special USB (EHCI) mode for such purposes: > http://www.coreboot.org/EHCI_Debug_Port
That's pretty neat :) The dongle is pretty expensive relative to the cost of a Firewire card though. > But that requires some special HW in addition to SW support which our > doesn't have. > > BTW, Ronald, it is possible that you might have a serial header on > motherboard which is not connected to any traditional port. You could also purchase a Firewire PCI (or PCIe) card, they aren't very expensive. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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