From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 7 1:24:37 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 01:24:35 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-64.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BAAE37B400 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB79XDF00934; Thu, 7 Dec 2000 01:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200012070933.eB79XDF00934@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Hay Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Syba pci multi i/o card? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2000 21:54:29 +0200." <200012061954.eB6JsTD22959@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 01:33:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If there aren't any patches I might look at adding support for it. Probably > only the serial ports, because that is what I need. I would like some advice > on how to do it though. I had a look at the sio driver and it has support > for a few pci cards, but it looks like they are single serial port cards > and not dual or quad. So how should I go about getting the sio probe and > attach to do more than one serial port per pci card? As Warner suggested, you probably want to create a "bus-like" device that looks to the sio/ppc drivers like an ISA bus, and then forcibly attach the relevant sio/ppc instances as children of this device. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message