Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:54:56 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Cc: yury@nest.bistbn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial port problems with Acer UARTs--solved Message-ID: <199803120354.TAA09824@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <19980312132800.27545@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Mar 12, 98 01:28:00 pm"
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According to Greg Lehey: > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:54:51 +0200 (IST), Yuri Krichevsky wrote: > > Hi. > > > > This is small patch for FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE, that fixes > > problem with detecting serial ports on IWill motherboards > > (I hope, it will work for COMPAQ LTE Elite machines also). > > > > I don't think it is right way to detect serial ports, so > > please use my patch only if you have this problem. > > > > > > P.S. > > after reboot, you may get message like this > > 'sio0: 65 events for device without tp' - just ignore it. > > Thanks greatly for this patch, Yuri. Doubtless it can do with > cleaning up, but it did the trick for me (running on an Iwill P55XB2 > board). > > At Mike Smith's request, I've put the patch up at > http://www.lemis.com/serial-port-patch.html. As I mention there, if > anybody else takes the patch, please inform Yuri of the results. > > Greg > Just a ponderance. In his code Yuri warns that this is a temporary fix. The sio.c code isn't likely to smoke my m'board, but since it works on my ASUS/IWill board, what is wrong with including this permanent? gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service uNix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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