From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261392AbTDHIaa (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 04:30:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261312AbTDHIaa (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 04:30:30 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de ([195.145.119.39]:22836 "EHLO smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261392AbTDHIa3 convert rfc822-to-8bit (for ); Tue, 8 Apr 2003 04:30:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:42:15 +0200 From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux In-reply-to: <1049790892.18045.120.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> To: David Woodhouse , =?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rn=20Engel?= Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-to: tglx@linutronix.de Message-id: <200304081142.15852.tglx@linutronix.de> Organization: linutronix MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20030407171037.GB8178@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030407194039.GF8178@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1049790892.18045.120.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 08 April 2003 10:34, 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. > > > 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. This driver should really supersede the ugly drivers/char/serial.c. And its definitly usefull for all embedded systems, not only for x86 based stuff. -- Thomas ________________________________________________________________________ linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux http://www.linutronix.de mail: tglx@linutronix.de