Hello!

Can i redirect I/O of the OpenFirmware console to the serial port at runtime?
I've continued Darwin (OS X) for Pegasos project and now i need to debug my VESA framebuffer routines a little. Unfortunately OpenFirmware doesn't support fb8 yet so after vesa-set-mode i simply can't print on the screen. I'd like to switch the console to the serial port at this point and continue talking to the OF using my PC laptop.

Well, thanks for silence...
I've done this myself in another way - just Open("/pci/isa/serial:115200,8,n,1,-") and then Write() there.

:)

That's exactly how to do it.

The other solution would be to follow the article in the sidebar and set serial i/o as your default. In fact running this line through the Forth interpreter from inside BootX will do exactly the same thing (stdout will be redirected).

The VESA stuff will still work.

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Matt Sealey