On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Mark Hymers wrote: > On Thu, 03, Aug, 2006 at 11:50:19PM +0200, Sven Luther spoke thus.. > > I don't believe this will work, since we have hardware who has a pc-like 8250 > > serial interface, and is powerpc, and will run the same kernel that will also > > work on powermacs. This is why a static built-time check like you do is not > > valid, and why the previous patch used a dynamic checked subarch variable. > > There must be some workaround for that one, but i also believe that people > > like benh have been working on a better solution to this. I lost sight of the > > current state of this though. > > Oh, absolutely. I was mainly pointing out that people can use it if > they have Xserves which they really need the serial ports working on. > Of course, it occurs that if you're rebuilding the kernel you could just > disable the 8250 driver anyways :-)
Yes, but you have to have a compatible base system installed first, in order to build the kernel. That's fine on x86, but getting a working linux build on an Xserve without a an installer or a preinstalled compatible system *elsewhere* (to debootstrap from) is very difficult. Toni ------------------------------------------------------------------- Toni Harbaugh-Blackford [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Administrator Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC) National Cancer Institute Contractor - SAIC/Frederick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
