Bug#622779: sparc config missing SERIAL_8250{,_PCI}
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 04:14:12AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 17:10 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64 Version: 2.6.32-31 Hi, /boot/config-2.6.32-5-sparc64 does not include CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 or SERIAL_8250_PCI, so it's impossible to use PCI cards with serial ports on them, which is useful for accessing e.g. serial consoles of other machines from a sparc machine. [...] Is a module OK or do you want it built-in for some reason? (That would be necessary for a serial console, but you can presumably already use the built-in serial port.) Yes, in fact I only tested it as a module :) For the serial console of the sparc machine itself, the ttyS* of sun* serial modules are used, and on server hardware these usually hardwire to ALOM. This is to be able to get a usable physical port to connect to another machine. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110415072354.ga7...@entuzijast.net
Bug#622779: sparc config missing SERIAL_8250{,_PCI}
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64 Version: 2.6.32-31 Hi, /boot/config-2.6.32-5-sparc64 does not include CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 or SERIAL_8250_PCI, so it's impossible to use PCI cards with serial ports on them, which is useful for accessing e.g. serial consoles of other machines from a sparc machine. This used to be impossible (upstream), but the issue that had caused that has long been fixed. (We got it to work in March 2009, judging by a /boot/config-2.6.28.7 of mine.) Please add this so that the PCI serial cards in lebrun.debian.org and schroeder.debian.org stop being useless with the default kernel. TIA :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110414151032.ga7...@entuzijast.net
Bug#622779: sparc config missing SERIAL_8250{,_PCI}
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 17:10 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-sparc64 Version: 2.6.32-31 Hi, /boot/config-2.6.32-5-sparc64 does not include CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 or SERIAL_8250_PCI, so it's impossible to use PCI cards with serial ports on them, which is useful for accessing e.g. serial consoles of other machines from a sparc machine. [...] Is a module OK or do you want it built-in for some reason? (That would be necessary for a serial console, but you can presumably already use the built-in serial port.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
