Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: serial port discovery

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 07:57:13 +1100

On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 17:08 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > This moves the discovery of legacy serial ports to a separate file,
> > makes it common to ppc32 and ppc64, and reworks it to use the new OF
> > address translators to get to the ports early. This new version can also
> > detect some PCI serial cards using legacy chips and will probably match
> > those discovered port with the default console choice.
> 
> This makes it deal with the fact that the Pegasos firmware reports that
> its clock frequency is zero...

Gack !?!?

Sven, what's up there ? Why the hell would you do that ?

Ben.