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Re: device matching at mainbus



Give them a chance, Holm, they're probably busy at work!

You do seem to be doing an amazing job though. 

Best regards,

John

John D. Peedle MIET
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On 15 Jan 2013, at 14:41, "Holm Tiffe" <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:

> Holm Tiffe wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> since Ragge begged me to not use my vsbus, I attached the console device at
>> the mainbus from the vax, as it also done with the sgec for example.
>> 
>> I now have some questions about this:
>> 
>> The mainbus has a somewhat simplyfied interface to the device drivers,
>> specially there seems to be mo support for the config file att all.
>> 
>> The SCN2681 is a Dual UART, that means I have 2 Channels and the
>> calculating of baudrates etc from one channel is depending on the other
>> and there is only one interrupt generated from both units, but each unit
>> must have it's own softc. The driver is a little bit special at this.
>> 
>> Is it right, that I have to insert 2 devices in the cpu_devs line
>> (ka650_devs[]) to get the driver_attach() routine called 2 times?
>> 
>> If this is the case, than removing that vsbus thing from my code
>> seems not a really good idea to me since a proper inclusion of the both
>> channels requires the config file support again..
>> 
>> How can I implement 2 instances of a driver at mainbus otherways?
>> 
>> ????
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Holm
>> --
> 
> 
> So here is no one that knows anything again.
> Thx guys for letting me swim alone in the cold water.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Holm
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