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Date:      Thu, 6 Mar 1997 12:51:59 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        SimsS@IBM.Net (Steve Sims)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sio probes broken in PAO-970210?
Message-ID:  <199703060221.MAA08990@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199703060203.CAA220647@out2.ibm.net> from Steve Sims at "Mar 5, 97 09:00:17 pm"

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Steve Sims stands accused of saying:
> 
> Historically, Compuke laptops have failed [5] and [8].  I've had success
> with some PAO / 2.1.x combinations, but 2.2-GAMMA fails regardless of
> whether PAO is or isn't installed.

Ok, so it's the stupid UART that they're using.  Are you able to open the
unit and locate the UART or the multi-IO chip that's actually being
used?  You may be able to track down a datasheet for the part, which 
would help in working out the "right" thing to do.

> I've tried upping the DELAYs in sio.c (as recommended by Bruce) but it
> doesn't help 2.2-GAMMA.

This includes the one between the setting of failures[4] and the test for
setting failures[5]?  This would be the critical one IMHO.  You could
also try reading the IIR several times, in the hope that it just takes
some encouraging to go away.

> Back into the sioprobe() code again, I guess....

You could try forcing the probe to succeed, and see if the port works
properly.  It's almost worth having a flag to do this.

> ...sjs...

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