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New Serial Driver arch ?

[Michael W. <mi...@dv...>]

Hallo,

I have rewritten a serial driver for a i386 
z8530 card. I have found six drivers for the 8530.
I plan rewriting/redesign a part from the serial io
struct. I think i a good idea to split the driver in
hw and arch layer for the 2.5 Kernel. 
Is in the linux-console project the rigth place for this ? 
Excuse me I begin with the Project, and read and analyse 
a big part of the code, step by step, and seach for all 
information. 
Sorry, when i mail for a old Problem. The mainpage from the
Linux-Console is a little bit old, a have a few days search
for this list.

michael

Re: New Serial Driver arch ?

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I have rewritten a serial driver for a i386 
> z8530 card. I have found six drivers for the 8530.
> I plan rewriting/redesign a part from the serial io
> struct. I think i a good idea to split the driver in
> hw and arch layer for the 2.5 Kernel. 

This is good.

> Is in the linux-console project the rigth place for this ? 

Yes :-) Look in ruby/linux/drivers/serial. I will be working will
Russell King on this new serial core. Haven't gotten around to it 
yet. Basically we seperate the "driver" layer from the hardware layer.
This allows a serial tty to place on top or a serial terminal. If you
think about it it is kind of dumb to have a serial terminal for something
like a joystick plus their is a price to pay for going threw the serial
tty layer to obtain info.

> Sorry, when i mail for a old Problem. The mainpage from the
> Linux-Console is a little bit old, a have a few days search
> for this list.

We have no web maintainer :-(