serial ports - pxa vs. 8250

Hi,

I'm trying to make one Compact Flash GPS (it appears as serial port)
device to work, and i have some problems.
It seems that the pxa serial driver is based on the 8250 driver and they
don't get very well together.
Compiling 8250 in kernel results panic,
compiling as module results device or resource busy error on inserting.
 From what i understand they try to allocate/use the same device nodes
(same minor/major numbers). As if 8250 doesn't know about the existance
of the pxa serial ports and tries to add device nodes with the same
min/maj numbers, instead of adding them after the existing nodes.
But it seems that this problem is not hx4700 specific but exists for all
devices with pxa serial ports? (maybe i should ask also on other list?)
I know that this is not a high priority one, but does anyone have some
comments or ideas on the problem?

Thanks,
Niki
Received on Tue Jun 07 2005 - 10:28:55 EDT