From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Mar 26 12:29:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C67437B86A for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:29:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-024.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.24]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA81564; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA86789; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:29:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 12:29:02 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: "D.A. Muran-de Assereto" , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Random lockups with 4.0 and serial IO Message-ID: <20000326122901.B86753@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <002c01bf9757$5c878f00$0101a8c0@tuad.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from don@calis.blacksun.org on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:25:40PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 02:25:40PM -0500, Don wrote: > I was under the impression that the Alphas used one of the serial ports > for internal housekeeping or something and that you couldn't use it for > ppp. In GENERIC, sio1 (COMM2) has "flags 0x50". 0x00010 device is potential system console 0x00040 device is reserved for low-level IO (e. g. for remote kernel debugging) Possbily that is causing a problem? -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message