Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Feb 2004 11:44:06 +0100 | From | Robert Woerle <> | Subject | ttyS0 why hardcoded to 3F8 |
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Hi
I am working here at a Tablet PC with serial touscreen controller . For whatever reason this controller now is configured to have COM1 at 0x220 and not at 3F8 . Is the aera of the "wellknown legacy " ports over and therefore it is becoming more rare that wellknown IO are dissapearing.
Would it be therefore worth investigating the possibility to not hardcode this in include/asm-i386/serial.h ? Or am i just in a lucky situation that some littel taiwanese did make a joke of the week and programmed the serial at this IO ?
Since i got it working now with a patch include/asm-i386/serial.h and kinda fine with it. Of course i would love to have the ability to maybe load the serial driver ( serial.o ) with a paramter telling where to search ?
Or could it be a easy thing to have a addittional module loaded which changes this config at runtime ... so i dont need a "special patched " kernel ?
Just curious Robert -- ____________________________________ *Robert Woerle * *Technical Product Manager
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