>>>>> David Jander writes:
David> On Wednesday 12 January 2005 10:59, Demke Torsten-atd012
David> wrote:
Demke> I dont know exactly the state of the DENX kernel, but in the
Demke> standard kernel the 8xx UART driver and the 16550 driver are
Demke> using the same device numbers (TTY_MAJOR) and device names
Demke> (/dev/ttySx). You have to change one of them.
David> You are right! What now? I cannot go around and change
David> TTY_MAJOR! Is it true then, that you normally cannot have a
David> mix of non-16550 uarts and 16550 uarts on the same system,
David> without doing nonstandard things with major numbers?
We've got such a mix but we use completely different MPC8xx support
infrastructure. Our SCC/SMC UART driver takes care of possible external
UARTs (it uses the same major number but configurable minor).
David> Should maybe arch/ppc/8xx_io/uart.c use another major number?
Then you'll have to change all applications using standard device names
(ttySx).
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