Re: kern/54317: System hang during boot

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/54317; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Cc: NetBSD bugtracking <gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: Re: kern/54317: System hang during boot
Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 17:51:59 +0200

 On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 05:27:44PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 10:12:41AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 05:55:01PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > > >  [...]
 > > >  
 > > >  Should we disable "com0 at isa*" in GENERIC?
 > > 
 > > I hope not, I use it on a recular basis
 > 
 > Well, if it makes machines hang, that's a reason to improve the driver
 > or disable it, in my eyes.
 > 
 > I replaced it with "com* at acpi*" but no com device was detected (and
 > there are no serial connectors on the outside of the machine). So not
 > even ACPI believes it has a serial interface, and still com0 at isa*
 > attaches.
 
 Ha yes, these days I guess using com* at acpi* would be good enough.
 
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