From 7ac4c26177713cf2b1ada8c8d377929aedd109e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Uwe Hermann Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:03:18 +0000 Subject: Add a kconfig option to allow the user to select a specific physical USB port for use as Debug Port (on chipsets which support that). Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann Acked-by: Stefan Reinauer git-svn-id: svn://svn.coreboot.org/coreboot/trunk@5860 2b7e53f0-3cfb-0310-b3e9-8179ed1497e1 --- src/console/Kconfig | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) (limited to 'src/console/Kconfig') diff --git a/src/console/Kconfig b/src/console/Kconfig index fa6f840035..3b8fb02dca 100644 --- a/src/console/Kconfig +++ b/src/console/Kconfig @@ -112,6 +112,27 @@ config USBDEBUG If unsure, say N. +# Note: This option doesn't make sense on Intel ICH southbridges as those +# hardcode the physical USB port to be used as Debug Port to 1. It cannot +# be changed by coreboot. +config USBDEBUG_DEFAULT_PORT + int "Default USB port to use as Debug Port" + default 1 + depends on USBDEBUG && !SOUTHBRIDGE_INTEL_I82801GX + help + This option selects which physical USB port coreboot will try to + use as EHCI Debug Port first (valid values are: 1-15). + + If coreboot doesn't detect an EHCI Debug Port dongle on this port, + it will try all the other ports one after the other. This will take + a few seconds of time though, and thus slow down the booting process. + + Hence, if you select the correct port here, you can speed up + your boot time. Which USB port number (1-15) refers to which + actual port on your mainboard (potentially also USB pin headers + on your mainboard) is highly board-specific, and you'll likely + have to find out by trial-and-error. + config CONSOLE_VGA bool "Use VGA console once initialized" default n -- cgit v1.2.3