epia-m (600mhz) -- /dev/ttyS1

Niki Waibel niki.waibel at newlogic.com
Mon Nov 17 11:37:01 CET 2003


On 17-Nov-2003 Richard Smith wrote:
> Niki Waibel wrote:
> 
>> 
>> ~ # setserial /dev/tts/1 -a
>> /dev/tts/1, Line 1, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
>>         Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 500, divisor: 0
>>         closing_wait: 30000
>>         Flags: spd_normal skip_test
>> ===
> 
> Are you sure setserial acutally reads the info from the device or is it 
> just showing you what the current settings of the device should be?
> 
> Ah.. Never mind I just looked at the man page and answered my question.
> 
> from the man page
> "It is important to note that setserial merely tells the Linux kernel 
> where it should expect to find the I/O port and IRQ lines of a 
> particular serial port. It does *not* configure the hardware....."
> 
> So I'm guessing the 2nd serial device isn't enabled.

so it is.
it is done in
src/superio/via/vt1211/setup_serial.inc
but there are too many fancy values :)

niki



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