[rescue] Linux Luserisms (was: secondary market storage?)

Brian Hechinger wonko at arkham.ws
Wed Apr 3 00:17:46 CST 2002


On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 12:22:43AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> 
> Wow.  I did not know that.  I couldn't get it to work with serial UARTS/ports,
> especially at nonstandard places.  That's probably more due to the x86
> architecture than the kernel, though.

i don't deal with x86, so i don't know how it applies to them, but any sane
arch makes this easy to do (since you don't need to specify all that IRQ and
DMA nonsense)

> It's, uhm, been quite a while since a BSD box was my main workstation (4/330
> running 4.1.4 back in "the day").  I guess I can be considered a newbie again.
> *grin*

things have come a long way since then as well. :)

-brian
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