Question about sio

[Joshua Scoggins]

Hello,

I was reading up on what was still needed to be done to get FreeBSD
working on IA64 and it said that syscons and sio were the last vestiges
needed to be ported fully to ia64. While I understand what syscons does,
I am confused on what sio does even after reading the man page on the
website. I understand that it handles a serial controller but I am
confused on why it is so critical even though its possible to log into
the machine through a serial line.

Thank you in advance,

-Joshua Scoggins

[Marcel Moolenaar]

Post by Joshua Scoggins
Hello,
I was reading up on what was still needed to be done to get FreeBSD working on IA64 and it said that syscons and sio were the last vestiges needed to be ported fully to ia64.

Can you provide a reference?

syscons(4) is definitely something we still need. That or an alternative
implementation.

sio(4) never needed to be ported when uart(4) was developed. So that
part is definitely not applicable for a long time (more than 6 years
by now).

FYI,

[Rink Springer]

Hi,

Post by Marcel Moolenaar

Post by Joshua Scoggins
I was reading up on what was still needed to be done to get FreeBSD working on IA64 and it said that syscons and sio were the last vestiges needed to be ported fully to ia64.

Can you provide a reference?
syscons(4) is definitely something we still need. That or an alternative
implementation.

Fwiw, I have a working syscons(4) for ia64. It still doesn't implement
everything (i.e. modeswitching) but it's very usuable. Will try to
provide patches later today.

Regards,