From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:28:31 +0000 Subject: Re: [SPARC32] Early kernel panic with 2.6.1rc1 Message-Id: <20040104162831.40901ef6.davem@redhat.com> List-Id: References: <1073231988.22653.23.camel@zorak> In-Reply-To: <1073231988.22653.23.camel@zorak> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 04 Jan 2004 17:15:58 -0600 "Tom 'spot' Callaway" wrote: > On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 16:48, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > > This really isn't the right thing to depend on, although I'm not sure > > what is. This chip is found almost everywhere. > > Is it natively found in any model of 32bit SPARC? The only possible way > I can think of getting one in a sparc32 machine is by adding a PCI 8250 > card to a JavaStation, which the PROM won't recognize anyway. I think we should not disallow this option, as the device may very well appear on PCI systems. We cannot just depend upon PCI however for the 8250 driver options as it may appear also in ISA and onboard forms. I do not see any reason why allowing this option to be enabled is a problem. People just have to become knowledgable about what kind of hardware they actually have right? :)