[ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Tue Apr 8 08:54:31 EDT 2003


On Tue, 8 April 2003 09:34:52 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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.

The child has a different name, currently, but yes. It will also be
interesting to see, what all should be covered by that option.

> > 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.

You don't refer to your effort to support higher bitrates on some
chips, I guess. Do you have a URL or something?

Jörn

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