Subject: Re: port-arm/23005: /dev/console dies by ixp425_comclose
To: Shoichi Miyake <smi@sm.sony.co.jp>
From: Steve Woodford <scw@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/29/2003 22:03:12
On Monday 29 September 2003 1:17 pm, Shoichi Miyake wrote:
> Uart port configured as /dev/console dies by ixp425_comclose()
> since ixp425_com_shutdown() disables that port completly.
The correct fix for this is to replace ixp425_com.c with a version
which re-uses the com(4) driver (sys/dev/ic/com.c), in the same way
as pxa2x0_com.c.
I have working code in my own tree which does just this, and which I
hope will make it into NetBSD's tree eventually.
Cheers, Steve