From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Alain RICHARD , Subject: Re: MacSerial and Serial driver cohabitation Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:21:51 +0200 Message-Id: <20000717102151.28534@mailhost.mipsys.com> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > >Powerbooks kernels compiled by Paul Mackerras have a quick fix in the >serial driver in order to make it skip the first 2 ttyS entries when >compiled on PMAC architecture. This fix works but was never included >in the main kernel because it is just a simple hack. AFAIK, Paul and the serial driver maintainer agreed on a new mecanism for fixing that problem once for all. I didn't check but I beleive it should be in 2.4 and could probably be backported if really necessary. Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/