Re: Support for serial console on legacy free machines

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 19:43:34 +0100

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:39:38AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> It _may_ be that Keith Owens (I think) will change this in 2.5. He has
> talked about a big reorg of the serial layer to separate out the tty
> handling from the serial I/O handling. Maybe at that point my idea of
> having a console on a parallel port will work. I guess that it is just
> not that easy right now.

Keith should contact me about it; I've got a lot of work in CVS to make
this transition easy, and I know Ted T'so's views on his intended direction
for this very subject (I discussed it with Ted at the 2.5 conference and
on odd occasions after).

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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