Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 00:54:38 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), yury@nest.bistbn.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial port problems with Acer UARTs--solved Message-ID: <199803120854.AAA26564@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:54:56 PST." <199803120354.TAA09824@tao.thought.org>
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> > On Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:54:51 +0200 (IST), Yuri Krichevsky wrote: > > > I don't think it is right way to detect serial ports, so > > > please use my patch only if you have this problem. ... > 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? Like he says, it's the wrong way to do it. The Acer part in question doesn't seem to behave very much like a real UART, which is why the extremely braindead test is needed to find it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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