CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS: Support for variants of the 16550A serial port

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS:

• prompt: Support for variants of the 16550A serial port
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_SERIAL_8250
• defined in drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.6–5.19, 6.0–6.13

Help text

The 8250 driver can probe for many variants of the venerable 16550A serial port. Doing so takes additional time at boot.

On modern systems, especially those using serial only for a simple console, you can say N here.

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