tty changes and GENERIC

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Nov 11, 2004, at 8:33 PM, Ken Smith wrote:

> Given the changes in the tty infrastructure lately does anyone know
> of a reason to not do this:
>
> Index: sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC,v
> retrieving revision 1.83
> diff -u -r1.83 GENERIC
> --- sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC	2 Nov 2004 20:57:20 -0000	1.83
> +++ sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC	12 Nov 2004 04:27:42 -0000
> @@ -130,10 +130,10 @@
>  device		"mk48txx"	# Mostek MK48T02, MK48T08, MK48T59 clock
>
>  # Serial (COM) ports
> -device		sab		# Siemens SAB82532 based serial ports
> -device		zs		# Zilog 8530 based serial ports
> -#device		uart		# Multi-uart driver
> -#device		puc		# Multi-channel uarts
> +#device		sab		# Siemens SAB82532 based serial ports
> +#device		zs		# Zilog 8530 based serial ports
> +device		uart		# Multi-uart driver
> +device		puc		# Multi-channel uarts
>
>  # Parallel port
>  #device		ppc
>

Hang on. On an Ultra 2 the puc(4)+uart(4) combination causes hangs.
I'm looking into it right now. When it's fixed, the proposed change
should be ok. Until then such a change is slightly too destructive.

> At least on the set of machines I have access to uart seems to be
> the tty driver that's finding the ports.  My serial console port
> is coming up as '/dev/screen'.

Do you happen to use ofw_console(4)?

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