From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 9 02:38:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60F1E1065670 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:38:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xcllnt@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout026.mac.com (asmtpout026.mac.com [17.148.16.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F0938FC08 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:38:59 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from macbook-pro.lan.xcllnt.net (mail.xcllnt.net [75.101.29.67]) by asmtp026.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KVY00JDEKOLK940@asmtp026.mac.com> for freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org; Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:38:46 -0800 (PST) From: Marcel Moolenaar In-reply-to: <4B47D286.2000403@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:38:45 -0800 Message-id: <5AE1714E-54AC-40D9-B213-382ECA04E6B6@mac.com> References: <4B47D286.2000403@gmail.com> To: Joshua Scoggins X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about sio X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:38:59 -0000 On Jan 8, 2010, at 4:49 PM, Joshua Scoggins wrote: > Hello, > > I was reading up on what was still needed to be done to get FreeBSD working on IA64 and it said that syscons and sio were the last vestiges needed to be ported fully to ia64. Can you provide a reference? syscons(4) is definitely something we still need. That or an alternative implementation. sio(4) never needed to be ported when uart(4) was developed. So that part is definitely not applicable for a long time (more than 6 years by now). FYI, -- Marcel Moolenaar xcllnt@mac.com