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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:09:19 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Embedded Linux PPC list <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: what's the value of CONFIG_8xx_UART?
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:04:31PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   under MPC8xx CPM Options, what's the purpose of selecting
>
>   [ ] Use UART         (representing option CONFIG_8xx_UART)

This is the older serial driver.  This can probably go away soon (Kumar
and Panto have fixed the issues wrt needing SMC1 and SCC1, should be in
kernel.org soon).

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Tom Rini
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