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From: Oleg N Panashchenko <helg@tav.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: multiport boards - building a PPP dialup server
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In article <199607032027.GAA15101@godzilla.zeta.org.au> bde@zeta.org.au wrote:
: >        "Smart" card with it's own CPU (I treat it like
: >        an I/O co-processor) should minimize this factor. (?)

: Only if the driver supports the smartness.  This isn't easy, because the
: upper tty layers want to do their own line discipline processing.  None
: of the FreeBSD serial drivers supports smartness.

What do you mean by smartness? Is it special input processing
in the case of (tp->t_state & TS_CAN_BYPASS_LRINT)? I think that
at least Digiboard driver in -stable does this. Am I wrong?

: Bruce

Oleg