On wo, 2006-11-01 at 16:01 +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > Talk about an uphill battle, I can't figure out for the life of me which > > serial ports are valid on my falcon under linux. Most of the kernels > > don't even seem to have atari_scc.o but the one I ahd does. When I load > > Atari serial got dropped from the official tree long time ago (because we > were stubborn and didn't adapt our drivers to the new linux way, once > Linus had grokked there is serial beyond the 16650). I ported the SCC > serial driver (the only one useful on the Falcon) to 2.4 using the generic > serial helper routines, which means the device numbers got changed.
I think the non-8250 serial port platform device numbers will need to be changed away from TTY_MAJOR. I ran into this problem on my Amiga 1200. I can't have both the internal serial port and a PCMCIA modem or COM port currently, because the major device numbers clash. Documentation/devices.txt also states about major 4, minor 64 and up that these are "UART serial ports" and that "UART serial ports refer to 8250/16450/16550 series devices". This is of course an incompatible change for user land, but IMO it should be done. Kind regards, Kars. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
