While attempting to upgrade our comm servers from 7.4-RELEASE to 8.2-RELEASE, I discovered that the digi driver didn't make the grade. I searched the archives and found discussions in August 2008 concerning drivers that were disconnected for lack of MPSAFEness. The threads continued right up to the point where it was agreed that the drivers shouldn't be allowed to halt/delay the MPSAFE switch in 8.0-RELEASE. It appears that there was also agreement that (at least) some of the drivers, digi included, would be converted soon after 8.0-RELEASE. The pre-MPSAFE code appears to be included in the most recent -STABLE and -CURRENT, but doesn't get built. The HARDWARE.TXT still includes digi among supported multiport serial device drivers. Is there any plan to bring digi forward? We have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect remote sites via dial-up. These work perfectly with 7.4-RELEASE. We would like to see them work perfectly with 8.x-RELEASE or 9.x-RELEASE. I have time and hardware to test with and can help as needed. Thoughts?
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, David Boyd wrote:> While attempting to upgrade our comm servers from 7.4-RELEASE to > 8.2-RELEASE, I discovered that the digi driver didn't make the grade. > > I searched the archives and found discussions in August 2008 concerning > drivers that were disconnected for lack of MPSAFEness. The threads > continued right up to the point where it was agreed that the drivers > shouldn't be allowed to halt/delay the MPSAFE switch in 8.0-RELEASE. > > It appears that there was also agreement that (at least) some of the > drivers, digi included, would be converted soon after 8.0-RELEASE. > > The pre-MPSAFE code appears to be included in the most recent -STABLE > and -CURRENT, but doesn't get built. The HARDWARE.TXT still includes digi > among supported multiport serial device drivers. > > Is there any plan to bring digi forward?[snip]> I have time and hardware to test with and can help as needed.Patches have been submitted in the last week to update the digi(4) driver to work with the new TTY layer. If you are able to spend some time testing them on 9-CURRENT, there is a possibility that there may still be time to get them into the tree before 9.0-RELEASE. The patches can be found in kern/158086. Thanks, Gavin
On 2011-Jun-23 17:55:15 -0400, David Boyd <David.Boyd@insightbb.com> wrote:>It appears that there was also agreement that (at least) some of the >drivers, digi included, would be converted soon after 8.0-RELEASE.That came down to developer time and it appeared that I was the only person interested in it.>Is there any plan to bring digi forward?See kern/158086 (which updates digi(4)) and kern/152254 (which re- implements TTY functionality that was lost with TTYng). Both include patches that should work on either 8.x or -current. Of the two, the latter is more urgent because it impacts the KBI.>We have about 55 modem ports over ten 8-port Xr cards (PCI) that connect >remote sites via dial-up.I've only got access to PCI Xem cards that are used for serial console concentration so it would be useful for you to test both the Xr cards and dial-in support. -- Peter Jeremy -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 196 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20110625/2b7fa49e/attachment.pgp