Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 03:13:41 +0200 From: Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> To: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.sparc64 Message-ID: <20040815011340.GA2374@timesink.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20040815023509.E31182@newtrinity.zeist.de> References: <200408150011.i7F0B0lO063891@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040815001834.GJ991@funkthat.com> <20040815023509.E31182@newtrinity.zeist.de>
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On Sun, 2004/08/15 at 02:35:09 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:18:34PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > Marius Strobl wrote this message on Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 00:11 +0000: > > > marius 2004-08-15 00:11:00 UTC > > > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > > > Modified files: > > > sys/conf files.sparc64 > > > Log: > > > sio(4), which never really worked on sparc64, was removed in favour of > > > uart(4) in sparc64/conf/GENERIC revision 1.63 about 9 months ago. Remove > > > its source files here, too. > > > > Hmmm... are you sure? sio worked fine for me on my sparc64 system.. > > > > I did have troubles when OFW and sio tried to share sio0, but then > > I just didn't use sio0.... > > > > In fact, I've been meaning to commit the sio module framework I have > > back when I loaded it to work on my system... > > > > AFAIK, it only really ever worked with tmm's patches at > http://people.freebsd.org/~tmm/sio-s64-* > but which he stopped updating after uart(4) was commited which was better > suited to work on sparc64. Therefor sio(4) was removed from the sparc64 > GENERIC kernel and sio_ebus.c deleted. I thought these two sio(4) files > in files.sparc64 were just a leftover. Thomas? The patches mostly contained changes to get console support and EBus sio(4)s to work. As far as I know, ISA sio(4)s worked with an unpatched driver, as long as console support was not required (I haven't tested that recently, though). - Thomas -- Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ <tmm@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ OpenPGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C
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