On Wed, 21 Aug 1996 09:55:28 -0700 (PDT) 
 wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:

 >                      It's probably a bit late now for us however,
 > > although maybe we can review this (or of course macbsd could, since
 > > your install base is slightly smaller than ours ;-)
 > 
 > Hmm. Let's not start a Jihad, now! I realize it'd be a bit drastic to
 > change, but I'd like to encourage it if at all possable. Y'all are still
 > in development releases, while we've been through two official releases,
 > and the third should be any day now (NetBSD 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2's source
 > has just about stopped changing).

My opinion here would be:

	NetBSD/mac68k assigns the serial ports, by default, in
	chip natural order.  The 8530 driver used by NetBSD/mac68k
	has the infrastructure to allow the user to arbitrarily
	logically re-order the serial ports to his or her liking.
	While it is true that there are changes that need to be
	made to other parts of the NetBSD/mac68k tree for this
	to work properly, eventually these changes will be made.
	Thus, since the NetBSD/mac68k serial port autoconfiguration
	scheme is flexible enough to support arbitrary logical
	ordering, there is no reason for NetBSD/mac68k to change
	the default ordering of the serial ports.

I.e. this is a non-issue.

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