freebsd stable - Jun 2006 - puc and sio

Dear colelagues,

playing with puc compatible MOXA card I found that it's rather useless with 
contemporary DEFAULT kernel: 

- sio compiled in, puc as module - puc identified, but no sio ports detected, 
even when puc.ko is loaded by loader
- sio and puc both loaded as modules - all sio ports detected, but comconsole 
cannot be activated
- sio and puc compiled in kernel - all work flawlessly

Maybe it's time to consider including puc in GENERIC?

Other question is that PUC_FASTINTR is not enabled by default, but this may 
require checking for pci resources after card initializing...

Any thoughts?

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 02:56 +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky
wrote:
> Dear colelagues,
> 
> playing with puc compatible MOXA card I found that it's rather useless
with
> contemporary DEFAULT kernel: 
> 
> - sio compiled in, puc as module - puc identified, but no sio ports
detected,
> even when puc.ko is loaded by loader
> - sio and puc both loaded as modules - all sio ports detected, but
comconsole
> cannot be activated
> - sio and puc compiled in kernel - all work flawlessly
> 
> Maybe it's time to consider including puc in GENERIC?
Yes - this has been brought up a few times before.  Another alternative
is the patch in
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-December/058909.html -
but there was at least one objection to it.  I'm not convinced the current
status quo is acceptable, though.

Gavin