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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

  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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