re: kern/54317: System hang during boot

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Martin Husemann writes:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/54317; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: kern/54317: System hang during boot
> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 20:03:56 +0200
> 
>  I checked all my machines (most of them I had to add a serial connector
>  myself, as they only came with a header on the mainboard) and all of
>  them properly show the com ports via acpi.
>  
>  So no objection to changing the amd64 GENERIC kernel to use the (currently
>  commented out) acpi attachment instead of com0/1 @ isa.

the proposed change seems to upset non-acpi boots.

instead of commenting it, can we change the priority of the match
routines, so that on ACPI-enabled boots, com@acpi is found, but
when ACPI is disabled, com@isa is found?

thanks.


.mrg.