Re: [RFC] m68k: Update defconfigs

Geert Uytterhoeven
2012-01-05T09:52:27Z

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 23:22, Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven dixit:
>
>>    CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE                : y . . . . . . . . . . y
>
> This is something I'd like to see, if it is possible from
> the hardware: ARAnym’s emulated parallel port for debugging
> is unidirectional (printing only), so, in headless mode,
> you get no console at all (for logging in to fix the network,
> see that it hangs in fsck, etc).

I think ARAnyM's emulated serial port can do this, but we no longer have
an Atari SCC driver.

Finn, Michael: as pmaczilog uses platform devices, it can be made to work
on Atari, too?

> Do the other devices not have a serial port?

We lost all serial drivers during the last few years, except for
amiserial (which
we may loose in the future, too, as it does things the serial core people
don't like / consider unsafe).

See e.g.
- 51c9d654c2def97827395a7fbfd0c6f865c26544
("Staging: delete tty drivers")
- 4a6514e6d096716fb7bedf238efaaca877e2a7e8
("tty: move obsolete and broken tty drivers to drivers/staging/tty/)
- bb2a97e9ccd525dd9c3326988e8c676d15d3e12a
("Staging: delete generic_serial drivers")

We only regained pmaczilog for mac.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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