From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 12 00:59:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29503 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:59:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29486; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA26564; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:54:40 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803120854.AAA26564@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Gary Kline cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), yury@nest.bistbn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial port problems with Acer UARTs--solved In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:54:56 PST." <199803120354.TAA09824@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:54:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:54:51 +0200 (IST), Yuri Krichevsky wrote: > > > I don't think it is right way to detect serial ports, so > > > please use my patch only if you have this problem. ... > Just a ponderance. In his code Yuri warns that this is > a temporary fix. The sio.c code isn't likely to smoke my > m'board, but since it works on my ASUS/IWill board, what is > wrong with including this permanent? Like he says, it's the wrong way to do it. The Acer part in question doesn't seem to behave very much like a real UART, which is why the extremely braindead test is needed to find it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message