using system serial tty drivers

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Fri Nov 18 12:42:49 EST 2016


Samuel Thibault, on Fri 18 Nov 2016 18:30:16 +0100, wrote:
> David, on Fri 18 Nov 2016 12:02:44 -0500, wrote:
> > The purpose of defines is that all drivers will dump the old serial stuff
> > eventually.
> 
> Yes, but we don't want to do that without testing.

One thing you may not know: some drivers can only work with an ISA card,
because they poke ports outside the standard serial ports. They will
not work with the new serial access method, and that's fine, since they
don't exist as non-ISA cards.

Samuel


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