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SubjectRe: High speed serial ports
Hi!

> 3) Is the probing instructions timing sensitive? i.e., can we do all
> of this in a user-mode program, and if it succeeds in enabling the
> high-speed port, just simply use the standard ioctl to set the
> baud_base, and thus not requiring any serial driver changes at all.
> This has the advantage of not loading down kernel memory with one-time
> initialization code. It also means that all of these tables can be
> more easily updated, and kept separate from the kernel, which would be a
> good thing. It also satisfies a concern I have about what to do when
> the next motherboard/chipset manufacture comes along, needing to do the
> same thing but in a subtlely incompatible manner.... basically, this is
> a scaling issue.

You mean putting this kind of detection into setserial instead of
kernel? Well, that might work... We'll still need to create new
serial-chip type "hispeed" (because bank selection has to be done in
other way or chip failsback into compatibility mode). I just thought
that doing detection automatically on boot is nicer...

Pavel
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