Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:52:06 -0800 From: bmah@FreeBSD.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, oberman@es.net Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sio sio.c Message-ID: <200201171752.g0HHq6s32212@bmah.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020117.100717.76575563.imp@village.org> References: <200201171616.g0HGGqn13750@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201171649.g0HGnOD23179@bmah.dyndns.org> <20020117.100717.76575563.imp@village.org>
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If memory serves me right, "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : It's a support issue. I don't object real strongly to backing out the > : "port may be disabled" message but the way that the sio probe claimed a > : disabled port was really an 8250 was pretty bogus and has bitten a bunch > : of people (me included). So I think that some form of the second hunk > : of the patch should stay in. > > That part of the patch I have no problems with (it is correct, and the > only slight bogon in it is that maybe the the hardware is at that > address, but not a UART at all :-). It is the part that says that it > may be disabled in the BIOS. That's only one of a long list of > reasons... The SIO driver is used on non-intel hardware, and some of > that hardware doesn't even have a BIOS in the traditional intel sense > :-) > > Like I said, it was the wording of the message.... OK, sounds good. When I get around to it (later today), I'll change it to just say "port may be disabled" (full stop). This time I'll pay attention to the dmesg output too. :-) Thanks, Bruce. PS. sheldonh...I don't think this particularly elementary advice, but I agree that having some more notes in the sio(4) manpage would be good. Even the new "8250 or not responding" message is a bit cryptic and, like you pointed out, there's a nice DIAGNOSTICS section for just this sort of thing. I'll put it on my work queue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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