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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: AMD SC410 boot problems with recent kernels
Date: 23 Dec 2001 12:02:43 -0800
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Followup to:  <20011223131658.3944A36FA8@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se>
By author:    wingel@hog.ctrl-c.liu.se (Christer Weinigel)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> It is an embedded board with a _mostly_ PC compatible CPU, but it
> has a few strange bugs/features that have to be worked around. For
> example look a the fix for the timer and serial port in:
> 
>     http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.2/0667.html
> 
> Especially the serial fix is (IMHO) too ugly to live in the standard
> kernel.
> 

#ifdef CONFIG_SC410 time?

> My belief is that the SC410 based boards are so strange that one has
> to have a custom kernel anyways, so asking why it isn't 100% PC
> compatible and trying to fix that is rather pointless.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

	-hpa
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