Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:15:03 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Jim Pazarena <fhard@ccstores.com> Subject: Re: comtrol rocketport 16 PCI Message-ID: <200508221415.04332.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <43066161.2050906@ccstores.com> References: <43066161.2050906@ccstores.com>
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On Friday 19 August 2005 06:46 pm, Jim Pazarena wrote: > the 5.4 kernel appears to support rocketport simply by including > "device rp" in the kernel compile, after which devices like: > > /dev/ttyR[0-9a-f] > /dev/ttyiR[0-9a-f] > /dev/ttylR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cuaR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cuaiR[0-9a-f] > /dev/cualR[0-9a-f] > > get created. The init and locked variants you probably don't need to worry about. They are just like cuai* and cual* for regular cuaa* devices for sio(4). > would someone please advise the purpose of the "iR" & "lR" devices? > > also, comtrol has some kind of support for the 5 kernel on their > ftp site; with a few instructions on how to remove some existing > files, add some of theirs, and re-compile the kernel. > their instructions suggest that ports are: /dev/ttyC* and /dev/cuaC* > > when following _their_ instructions, a fresh kernel compile crashes. > I see someone posted a question WRT the compile crash back in 1/24/05. > there were no responses. > > I would like to confirm that the existing FreeBSD settings for rocketport > support do indeed work, and that it isn't necessary to go thru comtrol's > compilation routine. I use the existing driver just fine on 5, 6, and 7 with an 8-port rp(4) card. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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