Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 19:56:34 -0800 From: "Matthew Jacob" <lydianconcepts@gmail.com> To: "Sergey Matveychuk" <sem@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sio driver sucks Message-ID: <7579f7fb0611121956n4bf77bc2g7443e7390923bb03@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org>
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YMMV and your message is content free. I use sio all the time as a console@115200 w/o any problems. On 11/12/06, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org> wrote: > Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? > > There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a > nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a > spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump because it has > not repeated). > > After a discussion in a Russian FIDO group I've change it on uart and > the problems gone. > > I think a default driver should be changed from sio to uart until it > will be fixed. > -- > Dixi. > Sem. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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