Followup to: <E13eOgv-0007oE-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > > So is there a URL with the whole discussion on. It looks like a fun read ?
> > Have a look at the linux-arm-kernel archive at
> > http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/
>
> I can see where his confusion arises, but yes you are right, people need to be
> able to mix the 16x50 driver with the sa1100 driver. The ppc people went through
> fixing this.
>
> HPA can I suggest the description for major 4 minor 64+ is amended to be clear
> that its the 16x50 driver.
>
Check.
> The proper way to manage ramdisks like that is to open each possible set of
> ports and find which one fits your need - or of course you can use devfs which
> for an embedded setup with flash based root may in fact be a very attractive
> solution for other reasons too
Actually, opening /dev/console is probably what you really want to do.
-hpa
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