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SubjectttyS0 why hardcoded to 3F8
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
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