From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Erik Jacobson <erikj@subway.americas.sgi.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:14:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628081410.GA5321@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040628085429.C32206@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:54:30AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> If you're going to do that, why not just disable 8250 in the kernels
> configuration?
Generic ia64 kernels need to work on hardware with 8250-like UARTS.
These kernel will also work and boot on SN2 which will never (heh)
have this hardware so a run-time check is required.
> It has exactly the same effect. With the change you propose, you
> can't even use 8250 for PCMCIA serial cards.
Altix has no PCMCIA.
--cw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-23 14:48 [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 21:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-23 21:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 3:15 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 8:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:46 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 13:00 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-26 23:52 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 0:24 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 1:14 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 1:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-06-28 7:54 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 8:14 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2004-06-28 9:02 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 12:28 ` Erik Jacobson
2004-06-28 19:04 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 19:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 19:47 ` Russell King
2004-06-28 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 22:09 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-28 22:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-28 23:10 ` Russell King
2004-06-25 15:10 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-06-25 15:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-25 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-22 16:16 Pat Gefre
2004-06-22 18:24 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-22 18:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 14:42 ` Pat Gefre
2004-06-23 15:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-23 15:07 ` Erik Jacobson
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