From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 19 14:01:49 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92D11065672 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from FS.denninger.net (wsip-70-169-168-7.pn.at.cox.net [70.169.168.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EFC8FC23 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by FS.denninger.net (8.14.3/8.13.1) with SMTP id nAJE1ntN006241 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:01:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from karl@denninger.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] [192.168.1.40] by Spamblock-sys (LOCAL); Thu Nov 19 08:01:49 2009 Message-ID: <4B054F6D.70300@denninger.net> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:13 -0600 From: Karl Denninger User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Tancsa References: <4B054DCC.6020701@denninger.net> <200911191357.nAJDvd3X095748@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200911191357.nAJDvd3X095748@lava.sentex.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080409010609040000060607" X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 091119-0, 11/19/2009), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: V8.x-PRE2 Serious PUC problem - Heads Up! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:01:49 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080409010609040000060607 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 08:53 AM 11/19/2009, Karl Denninger wrote: > >> I will update as I have more information - this is a serious issue for >> anyone who needs working serial ports on multiport cards under FreeBSD >> for things like a fax server..... this is not the sort of "surprise" one >> wants to see! > > Its not the puc per se as the transition from sio to uart > > from /usr/src/UPDATING > > 20080713: > The sio(4) driver has been removed from the i386 and amd64 > kernel configuration files. This means uart(4) is now the > default serial port driver on those platforms as well. > > To prevent collisions with the sio(4) driver, the uart(4) driver > uses different names for its device nodes. This means the > onboard serial port will now most likely be called "ttyu0" > instead of "ttyd0". You may need to reconfigure applications to > use the new device names. > > When using the serial port as a boot console, be sure to update > /boot/device.hints and /etc/ttys before booting the new kernel. > If you forget to do so, you can still manually specify the hints > at the loader prompt: > > set hint.uart.0.at="isa" > set hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" > set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" > set hint.uart.0.irq="4" > boot -s Well ok then the uart driver is BROKEN. It simply locks up on the port after some period of time, returning nothing. I have found no way to reset the port other than a reboot either. That's a "surprise" that people running fax servers and other similar things are going to be very unhappy about. -- Karl --------------080409010609040000060607--