From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 4 18:29:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1293816A4DF; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:29:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.mx.meer.net [209.157.153.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B746843D73; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:29:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k74ITmij048164; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [10.66.240.106] (public-wireless.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.30]) by mail.meer.net (8.13.3/8.13.3/meer) with ESMTP id k74ITEdM097231; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:29:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) In-Reply-To: <20060804215751.J97440@delplex.bde.org> References: <200607252036.k6PKanFd072593@www.freebsd.org> <20060731191302.S1172@epsplex.bde.org> <6EFF87DF-280C-402C-8C2A-10F3144CF41F@svcolo.com> <20060802205230.N90692@delplex.bde.org> <20060802234330.J1249@epsplex.bde.org> <20060802150656.GB47835@svcolo.com> <20060803024810.X1573@epsplex.bde.org> <83D35AA9-61D2-4977-AFEC-C498F4147FC2@svcolo.com> <20060803041522.F2135@epsplex.bde.org> <20060802214243.GD86509@svcolo.com> <20060804215751.J97440@delplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <74CE7BDD-F743-42E6-B4E9-9FE6411579BE@svcolo.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jo Rhett Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:29:12 -0700 To: Bruce Evans X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: njl@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/100831: sio ignores BIOS information about serial ports - bounty offered X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:29:57 -0000 On Aug 4, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Bruce Evans wrote: > It makes perfects sense when you understand that the unit number > may be > assigned at many levels, starting with the BIOS. Whether you can make > COM1 be COM2 at the BIOS level depends on BIOS support for this. I've Sorry, saying nonsense like this confuses the issue. COM1 is a CPM/ DOS designation that means 0x3f8 irq 4. Saying COM1 = COM2 means "IO 0x3f8 irq 4 == 0x2f8 irq 3". Can you understand that this makes no sense? Physical port ordering has no meaning with regards to COM1 ports. Even on the original IBM hardware you could set jumpers and swap which physical port was COM1 and which was COM2. I spent years doing this! :-) -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation