re: kern/54317: System hang during boot

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

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

From: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
    netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>
Subject: re: kern/54317: System hang during boot
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:11:28 +1000

 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.