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SubjectRe: High speed serial ports

On 11-May-99 Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> 4) If we can't do this, why not put most of hispeed.c under an
> __initfunc(), and simply enable all of the board to the hispeed divisor,
> and then set the baud_base to the appropriate value, all at boot time.
> Then all of this memory can be thrown away after the kernel initializes
> itself, and if we're sure that the probing code is safe to run on all
> machines, maybe we don't even need to make it a CONFIG option.

Kernel image size is a concern for some of us. In fact, for us its more
important than runtime RAM usage.

J

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