Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.u

From: Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 10:57:59 EST


On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:48:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The only thing I'm not sure is that I believe the SPARC people uses
> ttyS* for Zilog 8530-based serial ports. I don't know if we want to
> define this as NS8250-family serial ports in light of that; I more
> tended to think of it as the "default" serial port for the
> architecture.
>
> It's mostly up to the SPARC people, I guess...

Anything else would mean the user of the serial port has to know about
the machines exact configuration on boxes like MIPS which can be tricky
in case of some machines and configurations.

  Ralf
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