From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jun 27 18:35:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D228937B405 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2001 18:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f5S1ZPf51525; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:35:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: from newton.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.18) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.1) id xma051514; Thu, 28 Jun 01 11:35:04 +1000 Received: from localhost (carl@localhost) by newton.aipo.gov.au (8.11.3/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5S1Z4d52448; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:35:04 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from carl@xena.ipaustralia.gov.au) X-Authentication-Warning: newton.aipo.gov.au: carl owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:35:04 +1000 (EST) From: Carl Makin X-X-Sender: To: Gregory Bond Cc: Subject: Re: Whence Stallion support for -Stable? In-Reply-To: <200106280120.LAA14713@lightning.itga.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Gregory Bond wrote: > The driver for Stallion multiport cards in 4-Stable is quite old. It doesn't > support many of the newer cards, in particular the EasyIO-PCI card, nor any > card manufactured since about 1998, which have a newer and unsupported UART > chip. I had a similar discussion with Mike Smith and Dima Ruban. Dima volunteered to maintain the code if someone else developed it. Mike volunterred to write the code if someone would send him the cards. That appears to be where it stalled. > I am willing (and I hope able!) to provide a jumbo patch to tie all these > pieces together and update this driver in a manner that should be easy for a > comitter to commit to -Stable. I can help there. I have an OnBoard and a E64/PCI that I can test against and I'm happy to trial code on both machines that have those cards installed. The Stallion code has rotted so badly in 4.x-STABLE that 4.3-RELEASE no longer detects my OnBoard even though it was detected fine in 4.1. :( Carl. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message