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Bootstrap: read out comport on x86 from BDA area

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With this patch the comport are tried to read out from the BIOS Data Area
on x86 machines. The BDA Area are part of the first physical page and may
contain the non-default io ports of the comport.

When used together with 'bender' from the 'morbo' toolchain, even serial PCI
cards (also Intel's AMT Serial Over Line adapter) are detected automatically.
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Alexander Boettcher
2013-06-10 10:30:49 +02:00
committed by Stefan Kalkowski
parent a092ad2fdd
commit 5c4fd5671f
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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l4/pkg/bootstrap/server/src/platform/x86_pc-base.h
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@@ -877,7 +877,11 @@ public:
}
else if (comport == -1)
{
legacy_uart(1, comirq, &board);
/* try to read Bios Data Area (BDA) to get comport information */
unsigned short comport_count = (*((unsigned short *)0x410) >> 9) & 0x7;
if (comport_count) comport = *((unsigned short *)0x400), comirq, &board;
else comport = 1;
legacy_uart(comport, comirq, &board);
comport = 0;
}
else