[ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Tue Apr 8 04:34:52 EDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:40, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Some more partitioning code that only applies to spinning discs of
> some sort (ide, scsi) or code that emulates spinning discs is always
> included. No config option.

We definitely want CONFIG_BLK_DEV. CONFIG_SWAP is a good start.

> Another one is serial.c. In an ltp test run, plus serial console, some
> 90% were unused. And the code gave me some shivers. Volunteers?

The new serial code is somewhat nicer. Still contains unconditional
support for a lot of bizarre 8250 variations, but I don't think that's
really taking up much space though.

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dwmw2




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