Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:48:02 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.u |
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Stuart MacDonald wrote: > > From: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > > > 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. > > > > What happens when you plug a PCI 16x50 card into a PCI bus sparc nowdays ? > > It should just work like i386, with ttyS*, but we haven't yet got > a sparc box to check. >
Does that mean SPARC has a conflict between the 8250/16x50 driver and the Zilog driver? If so, the latter should probably move (ttyZ is still an unused name.)
-hpa
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