com1 incorrectly associated with ttyd1, com2 with ttyd0

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 01 December 2005 04:01 am, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 November 2005 06:58 pm, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > > too, by applying the flags intended for the port at 0x3f8 (intended
> > > unit 0) to the port that ends up as unit 0 (0x2f8 here).
> > >
> > > Console initialization uses the flags to decide the console port(s),
> > > so swapped flags probably give swapped console ports.
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:47:18PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > Yeah, that's what's happening.
>
> Okay, so how do we go about fixing it?  I'm more than happy to supply debug
> and/or test systems to work on this...

Warner (imp@) has started tinkering on fixing the whole hint mechanism to 
interact a lot better with ACPI and PnP BIOS and we've had some brief 
discussions on IRC about how to fix it, but I'm not sure a real fix would be 
in the pipeline soon as it's a rather big pile of stuff to untangle to get it 
all working correctly.

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