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Date:      Wed, 20 May 1998 19:13:03 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IWill and sio, again and again
Message-ID:  <19980520191303.D22221@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:25:01PM %2B1000
References:  <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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On Wed, 20 May 1998 at 19:25:01 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>> I am using IWill MB with weird comports, not detectable by sio driver. I have
>> found patches, applied them and all was well.
>>
>> I've tried to build current kernel and found that sio.c has changed, and the
>> old patch won't fit anymore.
>
> I don't know of any correct patch, but the problem can be worked around
> by ignoring the results of tests 5 and 7.

On what hardware did you try this?  I tried exactly this approach on
an IWill P55XB2, and it didn't work.

>> Does anyone know if there is any effort to commit changes to kernel ssources,
>> to make soi.c understand EVERY comport, or at least make something like
>> options WEIRDCOMPORT, so I won't have to patch again and again?
>
> This is impossible, since manufacturers keep inventing new incompatibilites.
>
> The IWill actually seems to have compatible sio ports and an incompatible
> interrupt controller.

We may not be talking about the same thing.

Greg
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