Re: AMD SC410 boot problems with recent kernels

H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-23T20:03:24Z

Followup to: <20011223131658.3944A36FA8@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se>
By author: wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> It is an embedded board with a _mostly_ PC compatible CPU, but it
> has a few strange bugs/features that have to be worked around. For
> example look a the fix for the timer and serial port in:
>
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0667.html
>
> Especially the serial fix is (IMHO) too ugly to live in the standard
> kernel.
>

#ifdef CONFIG_SC410 time?

> My belief is that the SC410 based boards are so strange that one has
> to have a custom kernel anyways, so asking why it isn't 100% PC
> compatible and trying to fix that is rather pointless.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

-hpa
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