Re: 2.6 for DECstation, d-i

[Karel van Houten <Karel@vhouten.xs4all.nl>]

Hi all,

I've downloaded a current git source tree, and compiled that natively on 
my /260, using a debian testing/unstable installation (gcc 4.0.3). I 
only used an older version of the dec_esp driver, which gave me no problems.
That kernel boots fine, serial console works as it should.
As time permits I'll try to test some more options that I used in my 2.4 
kernels.

Good work (Maciej and others) !

Regards,
Karel.

Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> Of course there is. Just enable SERIAL_NONSTANDARD, SERIAL_DEC,
>
> SERIAL_DEC_CONSOLE and ZS.  They are all in drivers/char/Kconfig and it's 
> not a coincidence the options are the same as in 2.4.
>
> The driver has NOT been ported to use the serial core and frankly I would 
> rather it went away and write the necessary system specific glue 
> (including that horrible stuff for incorrect wiring used in all DEC 
> systems making use of the Zilog chips) to use drivers/net/wan/z85230.c 
> instead which already has a lot of nice stuff like support for synchronous 
> operation and DMA, HDLC framing, etc.
>
>  Maciej
>