speakup on a sparc

[Kerry Hoath]

I don't currently have the specs on the 8530 and they are different from
the 8250/16550. I'd recommend emailing the guy who wrote the z8530
driver and see if he can get you specs. Note however that with the sparc
kernel; you can't opt to compile the serial ports out, in fact they are
compiled in regardless no choice. Whatever you say you get serial support.
Why? Because the console might be on a serial port and the kernel must cope
with this.
For this reason it might be advisable to talk to the serial driver rather than
the ports ddirectly. Ask the guy who wrote the driver for these chips he'd
know best. I'll keep my eyes out for a sparc for you :-)

Regards, Kerry.
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:04:34PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Kerry Hoath <kerry at gotss.eu.org> writes:
> 
> > I surely have a sparc but I bet there is no driver for the
> > Zilog 8530 serial ports in the speakup stuff for sparc?
> 
> Do you know whether the Zilog uarts use the same command set as the
> 16550/8350s?  If not, it shouldn't be to difficult to write the code
> if you have the specs on those uarts.  If you do, and they are
> different send them to me and I'll put some patches together to try.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
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