From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: "David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:42:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304081142.15852.tglx@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1049790892.18045.120.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com>
On Tuesday 08 April 2003 10:34, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:40, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > Some more partitioning code that only applies to spinning discs of
> > some sort (ide, scsi) or code that emulates spinning discs is always
> > included. No config option.
>
> We definitely want CONFIG_BLK_DEV. CONFIG_SWAP is a good start.
>
> > Another one is serial.c. In an ltp test run, plus serial console, some
> > 90% were unused. And the code gave me some shivers. Volunteers?
>
> The new serial code is somewhat nicer. Still contains unconditional
> support for a lot of bizarre 8250 variations, but I don't think that's
> really taking up much space though.
This driver should really supersede the ugly drivers/char/serial.c. And its
definitly usefull for all embedded systems, not only for x86 based stuff.
--
Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-08 8:42 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <p73r88exh3r.fsf@oldwotan.suse.de>
2003-04-07 19:40 ` [ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux Jörn Engel
2003-04-08 4:38 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-08 7:18 ` Daniel Egger
2003-04-08 8:12 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-04-08 9:36 ` Miles Bader
2003-04-08 8:34 ` David Woodhouse
2003-04-08 9:42 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2003-04-08 12:54 ` Jörn Engel
2003-04-08 12:59 ` David Woodhouse
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