> 
> 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.

True, a user can change the numbering as they wish, but this whole thread
started when someone started giving advice about how to set up the tty's.
Since a fair number of people use both, and as people switch from one
to the other (and when NetBSD gets a PPC port :-) there's ample room
for confusion. Let's see now, is tty01 the printer on NetBSD, or is tty01
the modem under MkLinux?

Take care,

Bill