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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU!ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au!lugb!latcs1!wongm Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: patch support for Chris' com drivers ? Message-ID: <1993Apr8.114035.22002@latcs1.lat.oz.au> From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1993 11:40:35 GMT References: <C543Lv.Ht9@agora.rain.com> <1pus16INN2rm@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia Lines: 45 In article <1pus16INN2rm@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >In article <C543Lv.Ht9@agora.rain.com> Rodney Grimes (rgrimes@agora.rain.com) wrote: >-> wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong) writes: >-> >-> >Hi, >-> > I wonder if Chris' com drivers for COM3 and COM4 has been put into the >-> >latest patchkit yet (instead of getting it separately from agate) ? >-> >-> Support for COM3 and COM4 is availiable even in 0.1, you just need to >-> add the lines to your config file. Patchkit 0.2.3 does add the defines >-> so that you can use IO_COM3 and IO_COM4 in the config file, also the >-> GENERICISA kernel has been updated to include this support. > >At which IRQs ? >-> Well, my COM1 and COM3 are on IRQ4, and COM2 and COM4 share IRQ3. I thought 386bsd is an interrupt driven system, and does that mean I have to reset different IRQ for all different COM in BIOS setup and add those entris in my config file ? >-> I am regreatting haveing to say that Chris' com drivers will probably >-> not end up in the patchkit, I have decided to get Bruce Evan's intr >-> code in one way or the other and his com driver, I believe that even >-> Chris is behind this idea (Chris?). I know of someone working on getting >-> all of Chris's BIDIR and modem support stuff into Bruce's com driver. >-> This is a much better solution to a lot more problems that Chris's drivers. > So, where can I get that com drivers of Bruce ? >I think the silo overflows were the biggest problem of the com drivers, too. >But I had the impression that bde's driver relies on npx-0.4, which only >runs on 486. Has this limitation been removed for the patchkit version ? >(I surely hope so). > > >On a side note: Does anyone have patches for the serial console to work >before comattach() is called ? So that I can debug drivers in the >probe/attach phase. > > > Christoph -- - wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au