From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 9:52:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA9E15138 for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 09:52:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03161; Sat, 8 May 1999 18:52:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA16825; Sat, 8 May 1999 18:52:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Matthew Thyer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 08 May 1999 09:37:28 PDT." <22229.926181448@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 18:52:44 +0200 Message-ID: <16823.926182364@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce said, in his own quite way, that somebody had broken fast interrupts as part of newbus, and that is the end of that story. Poul-Henning In message <22229.926181448@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> I mailed a simple way to reproduce the serious brokeness of the >> serial port driver on my system and no one responds. >> >> What does this mean ? > >It means that nobody is probably willing to go bring up a MAME >environment just to test this. You need to isolate it to a more >minimal test case if you want people to jump on what could be a local >problem (some serial hardware is better behaved than others) or a >misbehaving X server (which is masking interrupts for too long; see >mailing list archives on this topic). The more complex your >reproduction case, in other words, the less likely it is that anyone >will respond to it. > >If you can say "here's a small stand-alone C program which hogs things >to the extent that the serial driver seriously overruns its buffers" >then it's likely that someone will be at least motivated to compile, >run and try it. If it involves running some esoteric application >which requires downloading data of questionable legality on top of it, >it's far less likely that anyone will even bother to look. > >- Jordan > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message