Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:40:13 GMT From: David Wood <david@wood2.org.uk> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/134878: [puc] [patch] Add support for Oxford OXPCIe954 and OXPCIe958 PCI Express chips Message-ID: <201103021240.p22CeDHk033036@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/134878; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Wood <david@wood2.org.uk> To: jt@xoasis.de Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/134878: [puc] [patch] Add support for Oxford OXPCIe954 and OXPCIe958 PCI Express chips Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:11:25 +0000 Hi Joerg, In message <201103020835.04483.jt@xoasis.de>, Joerg Traeger <jt@xoasis.de> writes >I would like to report success using a PCIe card with Oxford 958 and 32 (2 x >16) serial ports. Its name is EXSYS EX-44032. OS is FreeBSD 8.2. >Using the patch mentioned puc recognizes all ports and the card works fine. >Will this patch be commited in the future? I'm glad to hear that the patch works correctly for such a 'mega' serial card. I would still like to implement MSI-X interrupt handling. With standard IRQs, I found that the jitter is too high on my OXPCIe954 based card for pulse per second to work optimally with NTP, though it is usable. The most important thing is that this driver works 'as is' for a range of cards on several FreeBSD versions. I hope it will be committed so that others can use these excellent PCIe serial chips without patching their kernels. I did my best to try to interest some committers, though without success. The PR is on linimon's list of easy PRs http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/easy_prs.html I keep hoping that someone will commit this and close a PR that has been open for 21 months. If you want to try some advocacy amongst committers, be my guest! With best wishes, David -- David Wood david@wood2.org.uk
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