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Date:      Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:00:33 GMT
From:      puc-uart@oldach.net (Helge Oldach)
To:        freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: i386/105616: UART PCI device just silent...
Message-ID:  <200611270800.kAR80XpD071758@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR i386/105616; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: puc-uart@oldach.net (Helge Oldach)
To: xcllnt@mac.com (Marcel Moolenaar)
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/105616: UART PCI device just silent...
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:52:29 +0100 (CET)

 Hi Marcel,
 
 >The sio(4) driver can only differentiate between non-FIFO and FIFO
 >hardware (roughly speaking). It cannot differentiate between 16550,
 >16650, 16750 and/or 16950.
 
 Ah, OK.
 
 >> If it helps, I can place this card in a test machine over here for a
 >> couple of days and plug some serial device to it, so that you can play
 >> with it from remote. That may take a day or two to set up however.
 >
 >That would definitely help. If you have a cross-over cable then you
 >can connect both UART interfaces with each other, which makes testing
 >much easier.
 
 OK, will let you know.
 
 Helge



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