I have serial output on the dual Athlon board, now I can sleep!

Well I'm getting L440GX flashes the AMD760 chipset is so complex.  But
so far I'm doing better.  I have my own bios flasher, and I have
finally found and disabled the initial watchdog timer in software!

Major lesson.  And I'm always forgetting it.  If you reboot or reset
at a bad moment, it can wipe out data you thought was safe out the
serial port.  

So until I disabled the watchdog timer I couldn't tell I had the
serial port properly setup.   A 2.4 second watchdog timer is fun.
Later I'll have to see if I can get through linuxBIOS before disabling
it :)

Eric


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