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Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 18:31:37 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        jmg@hydrogen.nike.efn.org.dk.tfs.com, brett@lariat.org, HARDWARE@freebsd.org, rberndt@nething.com, WELCHDW@wofford.edu
Subject:   Re: isa bus and boca multiport boards 
Message-ID:  <2380.864232297@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 May 1997 23:44:29 %2B1000." <199705211344.XAA26555@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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In message <199705211344.XAA26555@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes:
>>so should I commit my changes that allow the sio to set 16550's to a
>>trigger level of 8?  and possibly make it more generic than it already
>>is and allow people to define the resulting fifo level of the uart?
>
>I think it should default to "medium" (FIXO_RX_MEDH) if NSIO > 4
>and there should be ioctls to change both the receiver trigger
>level and transmitter fifo size (NetBSD users recently reported
>problems with external devices not being able to handle 16 bytes
>of buffering in the transmitter, because CTS flow control doesn't
>work for bytes that have been put in the tx fifo).  The ioctls
>should be supported by comcontrol(8).

Indeed.

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