Hi Ted,
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote:
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> As a request, can you please send things that aren't MIME encrypted? It
>...
Fixed, finally. Netscape hides the fact it base64-encoded my mail under
the option "Formatting - Use HTML-Editor". For sure I then disabled sending
html-formatted mail in another option for balance :-)
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> As far as the comment that this is ugly, it is; I don't like having huge
In my experience many ugly things in computing can easily be explained
by historical development. It is difficult to come up with something beautiful
right from the start. Probably this design was expanded over time ...
> amounts of board specific crap in the driver. Over time, we may need to
> find a way to generalize it, especially if some other board manufacturer
> does thing in this incompatible way.
>
> Why, oh why can't serial vendors get together and standardize this sh*t?
In fact it is standardized (PCI Rev 2.2 specification)
Base Class= 07 (simple communication controller)
Sub Class = 00 (serial controller)
Interface = 01-06 for 16c450-950
But it seems the vendors didn't understand how to do boards with
multiple serial ports! I assume they should have used "subfunctions" (max. 8!).
So everybody came up with different BAR and Offset usage.
Regards, Gunther
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