From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 20 02:43:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29497 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 02:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29491; Wed, 20 May 1998 02:43:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id TAA22472; Wed, 20 May 1998 19:13:03 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980520191303.D22221@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:13:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Bruce Evans , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IWill and sio, again and again References: <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:25:01PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message