Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:40:43 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: device sio vs. device uart Message-ID: <beb5f9687c43ba0e72d7d9efbd76b563@xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <200506220117.09044@harrymail> References: <200506101356.50355@harrymail> <200506211541.43452.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200506220117.09044@harrymail>
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On Jun 21, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Emanuel Strobl wrote:
> oic, thanks. Surprisingly I couldn't collect uart information yet, I
> just
> found out that I can't use uart for serial console (on i386), at least
> not
> if all I do is to replace sio with uart in my kernel config.
1. You may need to update /boot/device.hints (if the UARTs are not
described
by ACPI).
2. You need to update /etc/ttys to enable getty(8) on ttyu[0-9].
> Since I don't understand the code I have no idea why I would want to
> use
> uart. Is it beneficial (on the i386 arch) to have a newbusified driver?
In general: yes.
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Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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