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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:20:45 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        lev@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Intel D2500CC motherboard and strange RS232/UART behavior
Message-ID:  <5176.1365772845@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <98147894.20130412171822@serebryakov.spb.ru>
References:  <229402991.20130407172016@serebryakov.spb.ru> <201304101016.57894.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130411070139.GR76354@funkthat.com> <201304111050.37055.jhb@freebsd.org> <1449.1365716268@critter.freebsd.dk> <98147894.20130412171822@serebryakov.spb.ru>

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In message <98147894.20130412171822@serebryakov.spb.ru>, Lev Serebryakov writes
:

> I mean, there is no good way to distinguish between this (hardware)
> implementation and "true" 4 single UART chips, when it is identify
> itself as "generic 16550 UART", 4 times, at 4 I/O addresses.

That is a kernel configuration issue entirely separate from the
question about the hardware being built to allow and support
interrupt sharing in the first place.

Many old ISA cards also were not recognizable and required hint'ing,
for the exact same reason.

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