Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 19:51:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: muir@idiom.com (David Muir Sharnoff) Cc: core@freebsd.org, nate@sri.MT.net, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: Re: Re: bin/1019 Message-ID: <199604211751.TAA14528@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199604191947.MAA19468@idiom.com> from "David Muir Sharnoff" at Apr 19, 96 12:47:46 pm
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As David Muir Sharnoff wrote: > * Perhaps this opinion might change if we sometimes implement ``early > * carrier detect'' by (optionally) using the (hardware) Ring Indicator > * for this as opposed to DCD. > > Only some hardware supports RI. It would require changes to The most common PC hardware (separate dual UART + Centronics card) often does. The absence of a working interrupt line on some printer ports has caused FreeBSD to support a polled-mode printer driver, but without giving up its preference for the interrupt-mode driver. I don't see why the absence of a working RI on some hardware should prevent us from experimenting with what might become a technically cleaner solution. > quite a few programs to get fax receive to work based on RI > and it would not be a general solution. Basically, only the getty needs to know about it. This is just one program (and in case you wanna receive fax and/or voice, you have to teach your getty about it right now). getty then acts as a dispatcher that calls the appropriate receiver program (login, receivefax, receivevoice, pppd, etc.) > Still, it's a nice solution because it doesn't break the rules like > mgetty does. Yep. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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