MacSerial and Serial driver cohabitation

[Michael Schmitz]

> >Whoever fixes this problem should be decorated, and a statue put up in
> >his memory. ;-)
> >
> >But if anyone is brave enough to attempt it, don't forget that there are
> >_two_ places where serial ports are probed for: serial console init very
> >early in the booting, and driver init much later in the boot process.
> >Those two should be guaranteed to be in sync re minor assignment/device
> >naming. Right now, that's not the case.
>
> My current rsync tree contains a fix done by Andreas Tobler that helps
> cohabitation of macserial and legacy serial. I know Paul and Theodore
> have been working on a more definitive fix, I don't know it's status however,

We will have to find a way to adopt the more definitive fix for m68k
anyway, that's something constantly slipping down on my todo list but it's
been on there for over a year now. I'll ask Paul and Ted about details.

	Michael


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