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And thus has a limited range of supported baud rates. Also add that
setting BOOT_BOOT0_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=0 will leave it unchanged which
sometimes can give you 115200 if the BIOS initialized things outside of
the normal BIOS baud rates (which many x86 enbedded-targetted boards
do).

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imp requested review of this revision.Aug 22 2022, 10:26 PM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 22 2022, 11:29 PM

I think you could drop the "In addition" tho, just if BOOT_BOOT0_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=0, then ...

jhb added inline comments.
stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
47

Perhaps only use "severely limited' once? :)

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