sio driver sucks

Sergey Matveychuk sem at FreeBSD.org
Sun Nov 12 10:33:42 PST 2006


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.
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Sem.


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