In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
>: > If there aren't any patches I might look at adding support for it. Probably
>: > only the serial ports, because that is what I need. I would like some advice
>: > on how to do it though. I had a look at the sio driver and it has support
>: > for a few pci cards, but it looks like they are single serial port cards
>: > and not dual or quad. So how should I go about getting the sio probe and
>: > attach to do more than one serial port per pci card?
>:
>: As Warner suggested, you probably want to create a "bus-like" device that
>: looks to the sio/ppc drivers like an ISA bus, and then forcibly attach
>: the relevant sio/ppc instances as children of this device.
>
>sio doesn't care what bus it attaches to, so long as it can get its
>resources. ppc still has some isa specific calls in it, but those map
>to bus generic ones so would just work. I've been holding off working
>on this until I saw what haked out of the bus unification work that
>Matt Dodd has been working on. I think he's mostly done, but I wasn't
>sure enough of that to proceed.
There is a PR already with a patch for some multiport cards...
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