{arch}/conf/DEFAULTS and uart

Alexander Best arundel at freebsd.org
Thu Sep 9 19:41:09 UTC 2010


On Thu Sep  9 10, Alexander Best wrote:
> hi there,
> 
> except for arm most archs seem to enforce uart support in conf/DEFAULTS. is
> this really necessary? shouldn't DEFAULTS only contain vital devices/options
> without a kernel on a specific arch won't function at all?

jhb just explained to me, that the uart entry in DEFAULTS is not a controller
or something like that, but the uart backend to use *if* uart gets defined in
the kernel config.

sorry for the noise folks.

cheers.
alex

> 
> cheers.
> alex
> 
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