On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > I was thinking about using a PCI serial card as they're pretty cheap these
> > days, however I see the only PCI serial device compiled into the kernel is
> > "Cyclades PCI Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards (cy)". Is thete a reason
> > that the "puc" device isn't compiled? or is it that no one with Alpha's
> > never had one so it was never compiled?
>
> No specific reason - afaik nobody has ever tested puc(4) on any
> architecture but x86. Since the driver is busified, it might indeed work
> out of the box on other pci architectures.
>
> Miod
OK, I guess I'll buy a "puc" supported device and try it out.
thanks
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