Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix - add ioc3 serial driver support

[Pat Gefre <pfg@americas.sgi.com>]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

+ On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:24:05PM -0500, Pat Gefre wrote:
+ > 
+ > I have a patch : ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/042-ioc3-support
+ > 
+ > This driver adds support for a 2 port PCI IOC3 serial card on Altix boxes.
+ 
+ We already have an ioc3 driver, and despite beeing in drivers/net/ it
+ also registers the uarts.  If the very simple serial support in there
+ is not enough for you please improve it instead of adding a new separate
+ driver.  That improvement could involve a split similar to what Brent
+ did for ioc4 recently.
+ 

Something I didn't make clear - the driver that I am adding is a pci
card based on the IOC3 serial part - it is a single function card - 2
serial ports. This is supported on Altix.

The driver that is in drivers/net is to support a (full) IOC3 card -
ethernet and serial ports. This is not supported on Altix. Only the
newer IOC4 is supported (it also has serial ports among other things).

They are two different pieces of hardware.

-- Pat

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