* Russell Garrison <russell.garri...@gmail.com> [2011-12-08 02:17]:
> Any possibility of using USB serial adapters [as console]?

think about it for a second. that would require the bootloader to have
a usb stack. very much different than an isa device at a fixed address.

theroetically the kernel itself could use a usb cereal once booted -
and if you end up i ddb> your console is unusable again since your usb
stack might be wedged, the usb kthreads don't get to run as long as
you're in ddb>, ...

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