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From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
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Subject: Re: device sio vs. device uart
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On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:

> oic, thanks. Surprisingly I couldn't collect uart information yet, I 
> just
> found out that I can't use uart for serial console (on i386), at least 
> not
> if all I do is to replace sio with uart in my kernel config.

1. You may need to update /boot/device.hints (if the UARTs are not 
described
    by ACPI).
2. You need to update /etc/ttys to enable getty(8) on ttyu[0-9].

> Since I don't understand the code I have no idea why I would want to 
> use
> uart. Is it beneficial (on the i386 arch) to have a newbusified driver?

In general: yes.

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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net