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Ralf Baechle wrote:

>On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 02:13:51PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  
>
>No argument here.  Pete says the AMD Alchemy UART is just different enough
>to be hard to handle in the 8250 and so the driver is just an ugly
>chainsawed version of the 8250.c
>  
>
Even if I don't make me a lot of friends, the au1x00 driver seems to be 
a hack.

Most of the difference seems to be the PCI stuff, that has been removed 
and the access method.
Shouldn't we have a driver for the chip and one driver for each access 
method (isa,pci,...).
The access method should handle register access and the bus abstraction.
I have a lot of problems with the au1x00 serial driver, because I use it 
together
with a PCMCIA serial port card.

Michael