From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <0A0CCED2EF0FD41196950060089FDFED1A5E92@nt0.omnibyte.com> From: Don Easton To: "'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'" Subject: Serial console driver question Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:11:16 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I'm new to the list as of yesterday, and new to Linux as of a couple of weeks ago. I've tried researching this on the net but haven't come up with anything, so I'm asking for help here. I'm trying to port Linux to a custom VME board we make, this board doesn't have any video or keyboard hardware, so I need to use the onboard serial port as a terminal console. It looks to me like everybody uses a 16550 UART compatible device for serial ports, but we happen to have a Zilog z85230 part on our board. So my question becomes; what's the best/easiest way to get Linux to talk to this part and use it as the consol? Being new to all this, I'm not sure if I should try to patch the kernel, or write a driver for this part, or something else... Any advice would be appreciated. TIA, Don Easton Omnibyte Corp. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/