Monday, January 05, 2026

Re: virtio-serial support, viocon driver?

On 2026-01-05, sf@openbsd.org <sf@openbsd.org> wrote:
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> 2) It does not support the multiport feature.
>
> This would also be some work.
>
> OpenBSD does not support dynamic device nodes, so this would need some
> infrastructure for matching port names to device nodes. This would
> probably use some ioctl unless someone has a better idea. I don't like
> parsing dmesg for such info.

There's an existing hw.ucomnames mechanism which could possibly be used
to provide the mapping.

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