MOL Serial Ports?

[Tommy Trussell]

this is another follow-up to my own post

On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 00:09, Tommy Trussell wrote:
> I'm running MOL on older macs (with real built-in serial ports). I've 
> seen nothing about serial ports so I assume there's no way to use serial 
> (for syncing a Palm to Mac Palm conduits).

I have learned that getting the "Zilog 85C30" serial ports to work AT
ALL on linux can be a challenge. :-( So now I'm turning my attention to
getting them to work in linux. If anyone can point me to a FAQ I would
be grateful!

My Debian 2.6.8-powerpc kernel sees them. (This is on a 1998 PowerBook
G3 Series "Wallstreet / PDQ"). Here are a few lines from dmesg:

> serial8250_init: nothing to do on PowerMac
> pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>)
> ttyS0 at MMIO 0xf3013020 (irq = 15) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
> ttyS1 at MMIO 0xf3013000 (irq = 16) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Infrared port
> ttyS2 at MMIO 0xf4013020 (irq = 79) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Internal modem
...
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> pmac_zilog 0.00013000:ch-b: IrDA setup for 9600 bps, dongle version: 4
> pmac_zilog 0.00013000:ch-b: IrDA setup for 9600 bps, dongle version: 4
> NET: Registered protocol family 10