From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269978AbUJWByu (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:54:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269507AbUJWByj (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:54:39 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:46524 "EHLO gate.crashing.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269803AbUJWBxQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:53:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250: Let arch provide the list of leagacy ports dynamically From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Herbert Xu Cc: Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel list , Russell King In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1098496295.6008.129.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:51:35 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 11:42, Herbert Xu wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > a #define of an array. This finally allows to fix the problem of > > platforms like ppc and ppc64 for which the same kernel can boot > > machines with and without a 8250, and is necessary to properly deal > > That sounds great because we're seeing the same problem with i8042 > on ppc/ppc64. Do you have any plans for that driver? There is a different patch "[PATCH] ppc64: Add mecanism to check existence of legacy ISA devices" that I posted today that does that for ppc64, however, Linus seem to prefer something different involving porting the pnp core to ppc64 and adapting those drivers to rely on it, which I don't have time to do at the moment. Ben.