From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Jason Dravet <dravet@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong number of serial port detected
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:35:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051210103538.GB16104@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200512091254.44770.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:54:44PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 7:37 am, Jason Dravet wrote:
> > The question I have
> > is with all of this plug and play stuff in our PCs shouldn't it be possible
> > to get the correct number of ports, ask the bios or the pci bus or
> > something?
>
> Yes. ACPI (or even PNPBIOS) should tell us about all the "legacy"
> ports, and PCI or other bus enumeration should tell us about all the
> rest.
Unless I stick a serial card into an industrial PC. And yes, ISA
serial cards are still sold:
http://www.amplicon.co.uk/dr-prod3.cfm/groupId/10740/secid/10177.htm
ISA serial cards will not show up in ACPI, PNPBIOS or any other bus
enumeration scheme. The only way to use them is via setserial.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-10 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-08 3:02 Jason Dravet
2005-12-08 10:54 ` Russell King
2005-12-09 14:37 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-09 17:27 ` Russell King
2005-12-09 19:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2005-12-10 1:46 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-10 10:35 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-12-10 14:24 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-10 15:46 ` Russell King
2005-12-10 17:56 ` Jason Dravet
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-07 15:44 Jason Dravet
2005-12-07 15:50 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 19:59 ` Jason Dravet
2005-12-07 21:15 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 21:28 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-12-07 21:31 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 21:38 ` Russell King
2005-12-07 23:03 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-07 23:46 ` Russell King
2005-12-08 0:50 ` Dave Jones
2005-12-08 3:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-07 16:46 ` Russell King
2006-01-07 21:05 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-08 1:23 ` Jason Dravet
2006-01-08 9:08 ` Russell King
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