com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 1 08:54:01 PST 2005
On Wednesday 30 November 2005 01:17 pm, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > Console initialization uses the flags to decide the console port(s),
> > so swapped flags probably give swapped console ports.
>
> I don't know if this is related, but ACPI also seems to find devices which
> are disabled (ie parallel parts, etc) and then complains because it can't
> allocate resources for them.
>
> It sounds like ACPI isn't reading the BIOS data correctly at all. What
> debug options can I enable to get more information?
No, it is reading it right. When you disable a device in ACPI it merely
doesn't assign resources to it. The OS can assign resources to it on its own
though and re-enable the device. FreeBSD currently doesn't implement enough
to get that right though.
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