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Subject: docs/145066: FAQ update for new uart dev names for serial port. 
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>Number:         145066
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       FAQ update for new uart dev names for serial port.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
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>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Mar 27 04:00:07 UTC 2010
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>Originator:     Aiza
>Release:        8.0 release
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Frequently Asked Questions for FreeBSD 6.X, 7.X and 8.X
Chapter 15 Serial Communications
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/serial.html

The 8.0 FAQ has to be updated to reflect new serial port names.

>From the 8.0 release notes is the following
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html

[amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the device nodes have been renamed with /dev/cuauN and /dev/ttyuN.
 
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