Re: [TEST/REVIEW/HEADSUP] tty drivers mega-patch

From: Ken Smith <kensmith_at_cse.Buffalo.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 13:48:34 -0400
On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 12:09:47AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/tty.patch
> 
> This patch removes 2500 lines of copy&paste insanity in tty drivers
> and generally tries to get things to be less confused & confusing.
> 
> I need testers for all the different kinds of serial hardware we support.
> 
> Please help test!

Ok, this patch causes two problems for sparc64 (so far).

	- Booting to single-user mode leaves /dev/console with echo
	  turned off, apparently no matter what the underlying console device
	  is (happened on both a serial-port-console Ultra-10 and on
	  an Ultra-60 with Creator-3D console which is syscons based).

	- The Ultra-60 with Creator-3D console panic's when starting
	  the getty on the console at the end of the boot, message is
	  simply "panic: foo" which I'm assuming means it's tripping
	  over one of the "KASSERT(... "foo")" sections of the drivers.
	  Looked like your patch removed a bunch and added a few...

Are either of these known problems and being worked on?  Do you need
anything (more info, debugging help, ???)?  Am I on my own?  :-)  Just
let me know where we go from here, I'm flexible...

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						Ken Smith
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