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Cc: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: device sio vs. device uart
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On Friday 10 June 2005 07:56 am, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> Originally I posted this to questions@ but got no answer so I'd like to ask
> here:
>
> Hello,
>
> after compiling a custom kernel with device uart instead of device sio I
> see the following in my boot message:
> sio0 failed to probe at port 0x3f8 irq 4 on isa0
> sio1 failed to probe at port 0x2f8 irq 3 on isa0
> sio2: not probed (disabled)
> sio3: not probed (disabled)
>
> But I don't have sio in my kernel at all.
>
> Can someone please explain me the major differences (besides the newbus
> adaption) between sio and uart? And why is sio still in GENERIC?
> And of course why do I see these sio messages?
>
> Thanks in advance,

I won't get into sio vs uart, but you will need to remove all of your 'sio' 
hints from device.hints to make the sio devices go away.

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