Re: SMP support for Daystar 604e 200MHz dual-processor card >

Paul Mackerras write:

Martin Costabel [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

(On the other hand, I see that Paul M. has CONFIG_SERIAL=m in his
standard config files. Does this mean that the serial.c stuff is
supposed to work on the PPC?)

Only with some awful hacks to disable the probing of I/O ports and to
make it start at ttyS2 instead of ttyS0.  This hack is in my rsync
trees and in the precompiled kernels I've done.  (I could post a patch
if necessary.)

It's not a good long-term solution but I needed something so I could
use the PC-card modem on my 3400. :-)

Paul.

I am happy to say that my patches to the standard serial driver which
were developed on LinuxPPC are in the latest 2.3 tree. Apart from making
it run on LinuxPCC, generic support for PCI cards was added, based on
work from various programmers (including myself ;-) )

I have a version of the new serial driver that works on 2.2.10/LinuxPPC
available as standalone module, if anyone is interested.

Otto


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Otto Moerbeek
otto@cable.a2000.nl

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