sio driver sucks

[Spartak Radchenko]

Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 06:36 AM 11/13/2006, 
> =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= wrote:
>> O. Hartmann ÐÉÛÅÔ:
>>> Sergey Matveychuk wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable?
>>>>
>>>> There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a
>>>> nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a
>>>> spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump because 
>>>> it has
>>>> not repeated).
>>>>
>>>> After a discussion in a Russian FIDO group I've change it on uart and
>>>> the problems gone.
>>>>
>>>> I think a default driver should be changed from sio to uart until it
>>>> will be fixed.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Had those overflows many times when I used FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE,
>>> 6.1-STABLE and a modem.
>>> But this never had a so bad influence forcing me into using uart.
>>>
>> I had serious problems with sio on Intel STL2 motherboard and recent 
>> stable. Massive silo overflows (modem was almost unusable) and at 
>> least 1 sio-related panic (spinlock held for more than 5 sec). Now I 
>> changed sio to uart ant it works like a charm. All problems gone.
>
> How do you switch it from sio to uart on RELENG_6 ?
I compiled a new kernel with device uart instead of sio (not sure it was
necessary, but I did it) and edited /boot/device.hints (sio -> uart).
Kernel config was standard SMP from FreeBSD distribution. Also edited
/etc/ttys and /etc/ppp/* to switch from ttyd? to ttyu?.

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