Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 19:13:03 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IWill and sio, again and again Message-ID: <19980520191303.D22221@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Wed, May 20, 1998 at 07:25:01PM %2B1000 References: <199805200925.TAA27055@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 20 May 1998 at 19:25:01 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> I am using IWill MB with weird comports, not detectable by sio driver. I have >> found patches, applied them and all was well. >> >> I've tried to build current kernel and found that sio.c has changed, and the >> old patch won't fit anymore. > > I don't know of any correct patch, but the problem can be worked around > by ignoring the results of tests 5 and 7. On what hardware did you try this? I tried exactly this approach on an IWill P55XB2, and it didn't work. >> Does anyone know if there is any effort to commit changes to kernel ssources, >> to make soi.c understand EVERY comport, or at least make something like >> options WEIRDCOMPORT, so I won't have to patch again and again? > > This is impossible, since manufacturers keep inventing new incompatibilites. > > The IWill actually seems to have compatible sio ports and an incompatible > interrupt controller. We may not be talking about the same thing. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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