cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.sparc64

[Thomas Moestl]

On Sun, 2004/08/15 at 02:35:09 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 05:18:34PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> > Marius Strobl wrote this message on Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 00:11 +0000:
> > > marius      2004-08-15 00:11:00 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     sys/conf             files.sparc64 
> > >   Log:
> > >   sio(4), which never really worked on sparc64, was removed in favour of
> > >   uart(4) in sparc64/conf/GENERIC revision 1.63 about 9 months ago. Remove
> > >   its source files here, too.
> > 
> > Hmmm... are you sure?  sio worked fine for me on my sparc64 system..
> > 
> > I did have troubles when OFW and sio tried to share sio0, but then
> > I just didn't use sio0....
> > 
> > In fact, I've been meaning to commit the sio module framework I have
> > back when I loaded it to work on my system...
> > 
> 
> AFAIK, it only really ever worked with tmm's patches at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~tmm/sio-s64-*
> but which he stopped updating after uart(4) was commited which was better
> suited to work on sparc64. Therefor sio(4) was removed from the sparc64
> GENERIC kernel and sio_ebus.c deleted. I thought these two sio(4) files
> in files.sparc64 were just a leftover. Thomas?

The patches mostly contained changes to get console support and EBus
sio(4)s to work. As far as I know, ISA sio(4)s worked with an
unpatched driver, as long as console support was not required (I
haven't tested that recently, though).

	- Thomas

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