Subject: Re: Re: com0 vs. com*
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/16/2002 23:58:41
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:52:25PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Except that this stops working with pnpbios around..
> > 
> > I think this is just a holdover from olden i386 times, so unless
> > someone can think of any breakage it will cause, I will just
> > change it.
> 
> In presence of PCI puc adapters, the standart serial ports will not be
> at 0,1,2 which can be confusing. 

Ah, that would be confusing. Hmm..

We *could* config_defer the puc ports..

> pnpbios is not in GENERIC and INSTALL, do you plan to add it there ?

I think there are still a number of machines where it doesn't work,
so no.


-- 
Soren