From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 20:19:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23448 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:19:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tera.com (tera.tera.com [207.108.223.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA23440; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:19:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id UAA13727; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 20:17:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA09824; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:54:56 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Message-Id: <199803120354.TAA09824@tao.thought.org> Subject: Re: Serial port problems with Acer UARTs--solved In-Reply-To: <19980312132800.27545@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Mar 12, 98 01:28:00 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:54:56 -0800 (PST) Cc: yury@nest.bistbn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: <> thought.org: public access uNix in service... <> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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