Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:52:33 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0 Message-ID: <200512011152.34391.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051201090110.GA23495@svcolo.com> References: <20051117050336.GB67653@svcolo.com> <200511181347.20249.jhb@freebsd.org> <20051201090110.GA23495@svcolo.com>
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On Thursday 01 December 2005 04:01 am, Joe Rhett wrote: > > On Thursday 17 November 2005 06:58 pm, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > too, by applying the flags intended for the port at 0x3f8 (intended > > > unit 0) to the port that ends up as unit 0 (0x2f8 here). > > > > > > Console initialization uses the flags to decide the console port(s), > > > so swapped flags probably give swapped console ports. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:47:18PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Yeah, that's what's happening. > > Okay, so how do we go about fixing it? I'm more than happy to supply debug > and/or test systems to work on this... Warner (imp@) has started tinkering on fixing the whole hint mechanism to interact a lot better with ACPI and PnP BIOS and we've had some brief discussions on IRC about how to fix it, but I'm not sure a real fix would be in the pipeline soon as it's a rather big pile of stuff to untangle to get it all working correctly. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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