Re: OldWorld floppy and serial port work

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:27 AM, David Riley wrote:

> I'm currently working on adding SWIM3 (floppy) support using info  
> from the MkLinux/Darwin OldWorld floppy driver.  No commitments on  
> when it'll be available, but what's the best way to submit it?

Great! Please post patches!

> Also, I'd be interested in banging on the serial driver to make it  
> behave better; the damn thing breaks down as soon as I open a man  
> page with the serial console.  Are there any pointers as to what's  
> wrong, or is the z8530 driver just broken in general? I'd be  
> surprised, since it's used on so many other platforms.  I have a  
> fair amount of serial driver experience for various embedded OSes  
> and bare-metal BSP work.

What exactly goes wrong? This used to work since the interrupt rework  
in 2.0 but I didn't test it for a while ( I used an UMAX S900 back  
then and tortured it with lots of zmodem transfers )

have fun
Michael

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