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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:57:11 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        phk@phk.freebsd.dk
Subject:   Re: [REVIEW] move tty lock/initial up in the stack
Message-ID:  <20040620175711.GA1823@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040620.105000.106880101.imp@bsdimp.com>
References:  <20040619.145736.91276883.imp@bsdimp.com> <82937.1087721102@critter.freebsd.dk> <20040620.105000.106880101.imp@bsdimp.com>

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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:50:00AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> Of course I'm reimplementing the Cyclades Z driver to try to use
> uart, which is why I'm getting curious.  I don't know if this will
> wind up working or not, but since 95% of the hardware interface is two
> circular buffers in memory, which does seem to map mostly onto
> Marcel's model.  Time will tell...  I also have porting the stallion
> driver to current.  I can do this by a simple hack on the old driver,
> or a rewrite.  I'll use my Z experience to decide.

You probably want to review my uart(4) notes WRT multiport cards:
	http://wiki.daemon.li/index.pl?Uart(4)

This may or may not align with your thinking. If not, maybe we
should quickly touch bases...

PS: I just added cyclades to the list of references there. Feel free
    to add more or replace this with a better one.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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