On Thu, 03, Aug, 2006 at 11:50:19PM +0200, Sven Luther spoke thus..
> I don't believe this will work, since we have hardware who has a pc-like 8250
> serial interface, and is powerpc, and will run the same kernel that will also
> work on powermacs. This is why a static built-time check like you do is not
> valid, and why the previous patch used a dynamic checked subarch variable.
> There must be some workaround for that one, but i also believe that people
> like benh have been working on a better solution to this. I lost sight of the
> current state of this though.
Oh, absolutely. I was mainly pointing out that people can use it if
they have Xserves which they really need the serial ports working on.
Of course, it occurs that if you're rebuilding the kernel you could just
disable the 8250 driver anyways :-)
Cheers,
Mark
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