Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:10:37 -0400 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Jan Mikkelsen" <janm@transactionware.com>, "Karl Denninger" <karl@denninger.net>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Recommendations for a serial port card you can actually BUY? Message-ID: <00c101c6e905$d1a46cc0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <20061005151925.GA1156@FS.denninger.net> <005401c6e8fd$63a3ffe0$3301a8c0@janmxp>
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> Karl Denninger wrote: > > So..... I have an application that requires six serial ports, and would > > like ten. 5.x FreeBSD versions are being EOL'd per the announcement, > > forcing me to move to 6.x. The Comtrol driver for the "Smart" > > Rocketport boards is broken in 6.x, and the PR appears to be one > > that will sit and rot. > > > > What options do I have in the FreeBSD universe here guys? This is a > > real no-BS production application that has hundreds of deployed instances, > > and it is in no way "obsolete" or something I intend to stop supporting. Well, you could find (or hire) someone to fix the driver in 6.x, which would save you the cost of re-deploying hardware. (I'm assuming that the PR is a statement of "brokenness", and not one that has a patch that fixes the problem.) -- Matt Emmerton
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