Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:54:30 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Port maintainer query: what to use to specify serial port? Message-ID: <20060510035430.GM545@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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The author of the port I maintain (astro/gpsman) has recently informed me that he's released an updated distribution, so I'd like to update the FreeBSD port to correspond. It's a pretty simple port -- it's a Tcl/Tk application; there's no compilation involved. But it is developed under Linux, so the port has a few patches to the author's code to make things work better (or "at all") in FreeBSD. One of the patches has historically changed the default serial port from /dev/ttyS0 to /dev/cuaa0. But I just noticed that my laptop (running 6.1-STABLE) doesn't have /dev/cuaa0. Right; that was one of the changes from 4.x, so it should be /dev/cuad0... well, for 6.x. Is there a decent way to make the replacement appropriate for the OS running at the time of installation (that isn't so much additional hassle that it's not really worth the bother)? Do we care enough about 4.x to address this issue? Please respond to me, as I'm not subscribed to this list (Reply-To set intentionally); feel free to also include the list as a recipient of your message if you believe it will be beneficial to do so. Thanks! Peace, david (still running 4.x on some boxen) -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Spam received via "opt-out" lists is still spam, and should be treated as such. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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