Using Netra T1 105's as console servers.

[Marius Strobl]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:58:04PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 04:45:41PM -0800, Peter Losher wrote:
> > Marius Strobl wrote:
> > 
> > >> Has anyone used a T1 as a serial console server, and encountered these
> > >> problems?
> > > 
> > > FYI, in HEAD I've fixed rp(4) to work on sparc64. 
> > 
> > Hooray, any chance this can be backported to 6-STABLE? (or just a patch
> > for now) ;)
> 
> It needs no real backport; just grab the version from HEAD or
> use the following patch, which also applies to RELENG_6:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~marius/rp_64-bit_endian.diff
> I've planned to MFC it to RELENG_6 in ~2 weeks.

...which I did some hours ago. Did the fix also work for you?

> 
> > 
> > > I can also have a look at the USB drivers if you are still interested and tell me
> > > which USB<->RS232 adapters you tried to use. On a quick glance at
> > > least some of these drivers aren't endian-clean either.
> > 
> > uplcom is the driver I am using for the USB<->RS232 converters we use
> > (Prolific PL-2303/2303X/2303HX).
> 
> Hrm, that's one of those drivers that actually look good to me :)
> I'll see if I can get such hardware...

...which finally arrived today. At least with 7.0-CURRENT the
adapter works just fine on sparc64 as expected (tested using
the comms/minicom port). I haven't checked with RELENG_6, yet,
but currently there are at least no driver specific differences
in ucom(4) or uplcom(4) between RELENG_6 and HEAD.

ucom0: <Prolific Technology Inc. USB-Serial Controller, class 0/0, rev 1.10/3.00, addr 2> on uhub0

Marius