From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261906AbUBWKmS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:42:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261910AbUBWKmS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:42:18 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:16076 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261906AbUBWKmQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 05:42:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4039D976.5080103@paceblade.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:44:06 +0100 From: Robert Woerle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: de, en, de-at, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ttyS0 why hardcoded to 3F8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:b4ac6117e991eeeca15f2be66d9fb0df Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi I am working here at a Tablet PC with serial touscreen controller . For whatever reason this controller now is configured to have COM1 at 0x220 and not at 3F8 . Is the aera of the "wellknown legacy " ports over and therefore it is becoming more rare that wellknown IO are dissapearing. Would it be therefore worth investigating the possibility to not hardcode this in include/asm-i386/serial.h ? Or am i just in a lucky situation that some littel taiwanese did make a joke of the week and programmed the serial at this IO ? Since i got it working now with a patch include/asm-i386/serial.h and kinda fine with it. Of course i would love to have the ability to maybe load the serial driver ( serial.o ) with a paramter telling where to search ? Or could it be a easy thing to have a addittional module loaded which changes this config at runtime ... so i dont need a "special patched " kernel ? Just curious Robert -- ____________________________________ *Robert Woerle * *Technical Product Manager 2L Computers BV* * *Niederlassung Deutschland* *Pace/Blade/ /- /Commodore - Conceptronic* ** * phone: +49 89 552 999 34 fax: +49 89 552 999 10 email: robert@paceblade.com web: http://www.paceblade.com _____________________________________