On Thursday 01 December 2005 04:01 am, Joe Rhett wrote: > > On Thursday 17 November 2005 06:58 pm, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > too, by applying the flags intended for the port at 0x3f8 (intended > > > unit 0) to the port that ends up as unit 0 (0x2f8 here). > > > > > > Console initialization uses the flags to decide the console port(s), > > > so swapped flags probably give swapped console ports. > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:47:18PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > Yeah, that's what's happening. > > Okay, so how do we go about fixing it? I'm more than happy to supply debug > and/or test systems to work on this...
Warner (imp@) has started tinkering on fixing the whole hint mechanism to interact a lot better with ACPI and PnP BIOS and we've had some brief discussions on IRC about how to fix it, but I'm not sure a real fix would be in the pipeline soon as it's a rather big pile of stuff to untangle to get it all working correctly. -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
