From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 18 04:52:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C203106566C for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:52:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152618FC0C for ; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:52:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3I4q9We026846 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:52:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m3I4q9dO026843; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:52:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:52:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Matthew Smith Message-ID: <20080418045209.GB57251@dan.emsphone.com> References: <48082132.5040406@smiffytech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48082132.5040406@smiffytech.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Stallion Serial Controllers in FreeBSD 7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:52:12 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 18), Matthew Smith said: > From some reading I have been doing including here: > > > ...I have been given to understand that FreeBSD supports Stallion multiport > serial cards, provided that I enable it in the kernel. > > However, the link in the document above to stl comes up with nothing, > I can find no other references doing a site search and doing: > > grep -r -i stallion * Support for those cards was for i386-only, and was removed in 2004 along with a bunch of other drivers when the APIs they were using were removed. The last release that had the drivers was 5.2.1. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/isa/Attic/stallion.c revision 1.62 date: 2004/03/14 06:48:35; author: imp; state: dead; lines: +1 -1 stl and stli use the old COMPAT_ISA api. slt also uses the really old COMPAT_PCI api. This API is going away, so this driver is going away also. If users are interested in updating this, please contact the author since he has some preliminary work to move this to newer APIs. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com