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Date:      Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:29:02 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "D.A. Muran-de Assereto" <dmuran@pinacolada.net>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Random lockups with 4.0 and serial IO
Message-ID:  <20000326122901.B86753@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003261423300.9863-100000@calis.blacksun.org>; from don@calis.blacksun.org on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:25:40PM -0500
References:  <002c01bf9757$5c878f00$0101a8c0@tuad.org> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10003261423300.9863-100000@calis.blacksun.org>

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On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:25:40PM -0500, Don wrote:
> I was under the impression that the Alphas used one of the serial ports
> for internal housekeeping or something and that you couldn't use it for
> ppp.

In GENERIC, sio1 (COMM2) has "flags 0x50".

    0x00010   device is potential system console
    0x00040   device is reserved for low-level IO (e. g. for remote
                     kernel debugging)

Possbily that is causing a problem?

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)


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