On Nov 19, 2004, at 9:25 AM, Rune Torgersen wrote: > Send a patch to fix this in the driver. I think most people on this > list > would like the seriaql drivers to be totally independent of the > bootloader (no matter what it is).
The serial driver is totally independent of the bootloader. It configures the SMC from scratch and assumes nothing of the bootloader. However, if the bootloader configures itself as Linux does, then other functions like early kgdb over serial port work properly. -- Dan