On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 05:50:33PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > As more and more boards are added to Linux-mips tree, many places are getting > crowdier and uglier, including serial.h. The same thing is true for PPC and > other architectures. > > It turns out an easy solution is to let every board sets the serial port > definitions at run-time through calling early_serial_setup() routine. > > An easy fix for now is to give a default table size when no serial definition > is given, which at least reserves some slots in the rs_table array. See the > patch below. > > A better solution is probably to provide a config option to define the serial > table size. It's needed; I have machines here with upto 11 serial interfaces on a lowly R4700 box; Origins may have _many_ more. > A by-product of this arrangement is that you can configure a kernel for > multiple machines. > > What do you think? Ralf
