Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:33:59 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.u |
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Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 02:48:47PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > 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. > > > > It's mostly up to the SPARC people, I guess... > > Anything else would mean the user of the serial port has to know about > the machines exact configuration on boxes like MIPS which can be tricky > in case of some machines and configurations. >
That's more a matter of what ports are available, etc, etc. You really need to handle that properly anyway.
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