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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:43:30AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:03 +0100
>
> > However, despite people pressing for it, there's yet to be a *sane*
> > *technical* *solution* to the problem. All I've seen so far is one
> > bad hack.
>
> Well the "bad hack" we use on sparc gives usable serial ports,
> properly ordered and using /dev/ttyS0, with a proper matching
> console selection.

Well yes, but it seems to have code in the architecture's early
command line parsing to parse the "console=" argument to set this
magical "serial_console" variable.

Is this an approach you recommend for all architectures?

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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