Phantom Lake UART support

[Tim Gardner]

This seems reasonable. After all, the config change in Debian is 4 years 
old.

rtg

On 3/15/22 10:36, Vladimir Ratnikov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> At current point we have an opportunity to have CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID 
> being compiled into kernel in order to be available as serial 
> console(according to debian, there was such problem before and current 
> kernels has 'CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=y' instead of  
> 'CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=m'
> 
> ticket: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864368 
> <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=864368>
> patch: 
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/7618511643be57b5587f66729e1c0121eb4617f6 
> <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/commit/7618511643be57b5587f66729e1c0121eb4617f6>
> 
> So I'm wondering if there's a way of getting this module being compiled 
> into the kernel and being accepted in upstream or if there is something 
> cons about it ?
> 
> We've rebuilt the kernel with 'CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=y' instead of  
> 'CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=m' and haven't seen any problems and it worked 
> as expected. I believe, it'll be better for everyone having this module 
> to be the part of kernel.
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> -Vladimir
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc