Re: Booting over the serial port - how about parallel?

[Eric Seppanen]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 11:46:43AM -0500, Bari Ari wrote:
> For embedded apps. USB is becoming a preferred method for booting since 
> serial ports are no longer included on the many of the latest chipsets.

Really?  What chipsets?  As an embedded guy, I rely heavily on the serial
port for debugging, and there's no way I'll go to USB for that kind of
work.  I seriously doubt that we'll see the embedded world abandon the
good old serial port anytime soon.

PC chipsets normally make crappy embedded chipsets, and embedded design
concerns don't seem to be considered in PC chipset design, so I doubt that
erasing the serial port is done for or with the approval of embedded
developers.  Not that USB is bad; it's just way to complex for low-level
debugging.

They can have my serial port when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
:)

Eric