Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines

[Alan Cox]

> We are moving slightly off of my original question which still stands.
> For machines that do have serial ports but not at legacy addresses
> (COM1, COM2,....), is it acceptable to use the description of these
> ports as provided by SPCR and DBGP tables even though Microsoft claims
> copyright on these tables and retains the option to modify these tables
> at any time? Would it be preferable to use a table defined as part of a
> standard like ACPI 2.0 or DIG64 (such a table does not exist at this
> time but with enough votes for it, it may be added)? 

I dont think its a big issue, but if HP want to submit an alternative
open acpi owned standard to compete, well it sounds sensible