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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.6] Altix serial driver
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 08:54:30AM +0100, Russell King wrote:

> If you're going to do that, why not just disable 8250 in the kernels
> configuration?

Generic ia64 kernels need to work on hardware with 8250-like UARTS.
These kernel will also work and boot on SN2 which will never (heh)
have this hardware so a run-time check is required.

> It has exactly the same effect. With the change you propose, you
> can't even use 8250 for PCMCIA serial cards.

Altix has no PCMCIA.


--cw
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