RE: Russell King forks ARM Linux.u

From: Igmar Palsenberg (maillist@chello.nl)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 18:48:55 EST


> Yes you should be able to mix 16x50 chips with sa1100 chips. That is not the
> issue. I believe that people can place any mixture of IC's on a PCB.

Letting it make sense is another issue. Placing a Z80 next to an AMD
Irongate doesn't make sense to me...

> > HPA can I suggest the description for major 4 minor 64+ is
> > amended to be clear
> > that its the 16x50 driver.
>
> That may help others but it is still not the issue.
>
> >
> > 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
> >
>
> We have thought of the above solutions and I believe that Erik Mouw has a
> one line fix that will make everybody happy about the serial port. IMHO, the
> current problem is that Russell gets too angry to talk about this issue. I
> believe that no problem can be solved with a flame war going on. That is why
> I decide to stop speaking with him about the serial port issue. He then
> decided to block the e-mails. So here we are.
> Best Regards,
>
>
> --George

        Igmar

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