From owner-cvs-all Tue Nov 5 23:16:21 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2550E37B401; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:16:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BC6743E6E; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:16:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.4/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA67G0iX008872; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 17:46:01 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf majors From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Robert Watson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <91690.1036562773@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <91690.1036562773@critter.freebsd.dk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 06 Nov 2002 17:46:00 +1030 Message-Id: <1036566961.55376.89.camel@chowder.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Score: -3.4 () IN_REP_TO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 16:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > Requested by: doconnor@gsoft.com.au > > Uhm, why do we need a special driver for this ? I'm running RS-485 using > the sio(4) driver just fine ? Because it's difficult to set the parity bit manually using sio. (Well, it's impossible without patches) If you run multidrop where the parity bit is used as an address marker (to make coding microprocessor firmware easier) then you need to be able to set the parity bit at will. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message