Subject: Re: Re: com0 vs. com*
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/17/2002 10:26:30
On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 11:58:41PM +0200, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:
> 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..

A better way would be to add device number restrictions to config.
Something that would allow us to say "com0 can only be at isa? port 0x3f8 irq 4
or at pnpbios"
 
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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