On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 03:09:38PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> >> On Oct 27, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:09:29PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>>> >>>> On Oct 27, 2007, at 10:58 AM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yeh, you're solution was to simply declare that anyone who >>>>> knows that >>>>> COM1 is at 0x3f8 is wrong, and to use a different, yet again >>>>> arbitrary >>>>> solution which is which is listed first in ACPI... >>>> >>>> Exactly. Anyone who "knows" that COM1 is at 0x3f8 while >>>> the computer right in front of them clearly states that >>>> COM1 is at 0x2f8 is in denial. >>> >>> If I say in the BIOS setup screen that the first serial port is >>> to use 0x3f8, then that is the port which I want sio0 to attach to, >>> regardless of in which order FreeBSD sees them enumerated. >> >> What is the first serial port in the BIOS? > > It is the port which is labeled 'Serial Port 1' or something similar. I see. Some argue it's the UART at port 0x3f8, because that's how things have been documented. I like your definition, but unfortunately this thread is mostly about how we want sio0 at a fixed port by virtue of hints. >> Is that not the one >> that's enumerated first? > > Not necessarily, no. It should be, but is not always. Ok. What's buggy if it's not -- ACPI? > BIOSs are fairly often buggy or get things wrong. Being able to > override > the BIOS when it is wrong is a Good Thing. I would presume that we can patch the AML if it's an ACPI problem. That seems to me to be the right thing to do: you patch what is broken... -- Marcel Moolenaar marcelm_at_juniper.netReceived on Sat Oct 27 2007 - 21:18:46 UTC
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