Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines

Alan Cox
2001-07-26T22:19:38Z

> console is "Serial Port Console Redirection" (SPCR) table. This table
> gives me almost all the information I need to initialize and use a
> serial console. The bummer is this table was designed by Microsoft and
> Microsoft owns the copyright on it. Microsoft primarily designed this
> table for use by Whistler. Their copyright may cause potential problems
> with using it in Linux. This makes me reluctant to use this table. I

Such as ?

If its a table that microsoft added to ACPI and its well thought out I don't
see a big problem technically. There are a collection of BIOS services we
use that were microsoft originated