Re: UART support 2.2 + PCMCIA.

From: Peter Svensson (petersv@psv.nu)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 18:38:14 EST


I think you can mostly drop the 2.4 driver into 2.2. See
http://serial.sourceforge.net/ and work your way from there. We got a few
16C950-based cards to work with it at work.

Peter

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Roger Gammans wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've need some additional serial ports on my laptop
> for some time and have finally found an available PCMCIA serial device.
>
> However it is based on the 16C950 UART and ideally I'd like to
> use it with 2.2.
> The UART datasheets claim it is compatible with the 16750 which
> serial.c(v4.27) claims it supports, and 2.4's serial.c(v5.01) claims
> support for the 16950.
>
> So am I going to have to use 2.4, ought I use 2.4, on pain of
> kernel panics, or have I just got myself into a whole load
> of kernel development?.
>
> TTFN
>

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