> 	I don't know what the original driver you wrote looked like, but the 
> one which is in the NetBSD distribution relies on the com driver itself to
> set all the bits on the individual uarts.  Thus, flags = 1 is a necessary
> addition to the configuration file that wants to take advantage of the ast
> driver.  I believe we could add something to the ast multiplexer that puts
> the appropriate values on the softc structure before control is ever passed
> to the com driver.

That's a bad idea, because there are some ("broken") AST-like
multiport boards that require different interrupt-enable-bit settings,
e.g. they need the flags to _not_ be specified...

yeah, there are other ways to get around that, but things would get
a bit harier...


chris

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