Am 03.09.11 15:05, schrieb Jonathan A. Kollasch: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 01:45:08PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: >> I just noticed that 'com* at acpi?' is commented out in amd64/GENERIC. >> Is there a technical reason for that? >> >> I would like to uncomment it, to make the serial ports available that >> are found on IBM Anyplace Kiosk systems. > > Please don't. Maybe it should be made a module however. > > The problem is that com0, com1, and com2 are already in the config, and > force the numbering of the ACPI com(4) ports up. That is, enabling the > ACPI attachment will put what should be /dev/tty00 on /dev/tty03.
I see. Does that mean it will push up ACPI com(4) ports up even when com0 - com2 don't attach? I think a module woulc make sense then, indeed.
