Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 01:33:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Syba pci multi i/o card? Message-ID: <200012070933.eB79XDF00934@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 06 Dec 2000 21:54:29 %2B0200." <200012061954.eB6JsTD22959@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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> If there aren't any patches I might look at adding support for it. Probably
> only the serial ports, because that is what I need. I would like some advice
> on how to do it though. I had a look at the sio driver and it has support
> for a few pci cards, but it looks like they are single serial port cards
> and not dual or quad. So how should I go about getting the sio probe and
> attach to do more than one serial port per pci card?
As Warner suggested, you probably want to create a "bus-like" device that
looks to the sio/ppc drivers like an ISA bus, and then forcibly attach
the relevant sio/ppc instances as children of this device.
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