From: arumble@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Anthony Rumble) Subject: Re: linux as only bootable partition Date: 22 May 1992 13:19:55 GMT
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) writes:
>In article <1992May21.053756.13081@cs.ubc.ca> edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) writes:
>[ just answering the PS - I don't have DOS, but I still boot from floppy
>just because I want to have several different kernel images... ]
>>
>>PS: when is 16550 support expected? I specificly ordered serial
>>ports with these, as the FIFO seems an especially elegant solution to
>>too many interrupts at high data rates.
>I'd love to support a 16550, but I don't have any data on it (and no
>chip). The optimal solution would be that somebody else writes the
>changes to the serial driver, but I can certainly try to do it blind if
>I could get docs. So if somebody has good technical dosumentation on
>the 16550 in machine-readable format, please mail it to me: I won't
>promise anything, but I might get it to work.
I think David Nugent is working on a 16550 Serial Driver
He has lots of experience in this field with his work on BNU (A
MS-DOS Fossil Driver)
Anthony Rumblke