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> > Your application is busted; data is arriving faster than your app is reading
> > it, and the kernel has run out of patience and started throwing the data
> > away.
> 
> Im afraid not, the application is a software Upload, with a singly byte ack
> every 2k, if the serial port cant handle that, theres a problem.  I would
> presume that if the buffer is full, a write() should block.  

You've got a 16 byte FIFO, and you're wondering why it's overflowing
when your application is trying to get 2K at a time?  You've *GOT* to be
kidding, right?


Nate