On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > I guess you missed the subsequent put back yesterday. :)
Guilty as charged. > [...] com2 renumbers any other pci attached com ports from the likes of puc. I suppose for those running tools such as conserver, this would mean changing the config lines that carry the 'baseport' values. In case it's helpful, I've added the following snippet for faq/current.html to warn unsuspecting serial users. Regards, Rogier Index: current.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/www/faq/current.html,v retrieving revision 1.373 diff -u -r1.373 current.html --- current.html 28 Mar 2013 21:49:08 -0000 1.373 +++ current.html 6 Apr 2013 09:01:26 -0000 @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ <li><a href="#20130310">2013/03/10 - fontconfig update</a> <li><a href="#20130311">2013/03/11 - pf translation counter added</a> <li><a href="#20130325">2013/03/25 - Perl update</a> +<li><a href="#20130405">2013/04/05 - amd64 adds com2 and com3 to GENERIC</a> <!-- New additions go on the bottom, please --> </ul> @@ -562,6 +563,15 @@ of this being committed and rely on such packages, you might like to wait for updated packages to become available to save the trouble of building them yourself. + +<p> +<a name="20130405"></a> +<h3>2013/04/05 - amd64 adds com2 and com3 to GENERIC</h3> +OpenBSD/amd64 GENERIC and GENERIC.MP kernels now include the com2 (COM3) +and com3 (disabled by default) devices that were commented out before. This +may cause the renumbering of serial ports on other devices such as puc(4). +Users of the conserver port may want to use the 'portbase' and 'devicesubst' +settings to easily adjust their configuration. <hr> <a href= "index.html"><img height= "24" width= "24" src= "../images/back.gif" border= "0" alt="[back]"></a>
