Intel® System Debugger User Guide

ID 648476
Date 06/13/2024
Confidential
Document Table of Contents

COM Port Interface for Virtual UART

Most users are using a COM port to see BIOS setup menu or EFI shell. A user may want to use the same way to communicate with the target, then a virtual COM application will be another selection to utilize virtual UART over an OpenIPC connection such as HW Virtual Serial Port, com0com or socat.

The following example demonstrates how to configure a virtual COM port to bridge TCP connection to a regular COM port. This kind of 3rd party tool enables a user to use a serial port to communicate with target in the same way:

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