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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:59:36 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: ISDN Anyone?
Message-ID:  <199508241459.QAA16172@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <17595.809267801@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 24, 95 05:36:41 am

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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
[Zyxel 2864I]

> Yeah, this would be *especially* hot if FreeBSD could talk parallel to
> it in the same manner as lp0 but without the overhead of the current
> lp0 driver.  I've seen it really drag a machine down, and that wouldn't
> be quite as tolerable with a dedicated ISDN parallel connection as your
> main feed.

This is unavoidable for a generic parallel ("Centronics") port, since
it has never been designed to perform input operations, and the only
chance to raise an interrupt is the ACK line.

Perhaps we need a driver for the more "intelligent" parallel adaptors.

I think, 115 kbps on a FIFO UART are a more solid solution by now.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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