From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 26 06:42:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA10643 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:42:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA10631 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 06:42:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa17877; 26 Feb 97 9:42 EST Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA10111; Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:42:01 -0500 (EST) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA19258; Wed, 26 Feb 97 09:41:59 EST Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:41:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Snob Art Genre Cc: Samy Touati , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UART 16650 In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Samy Touati wrote: > > > Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Samy Touati wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I ordered a serial card with the 16650 uart from byterunner, and I was > > > > wondering if there's any kind of software support for this uart. > > > > I know that linux has a driver along with win95 and win 3.11 . > > > > > > The standard "sio" serial port driver does it. [stuff deleted] > I'm sorry, I misread the number in your first message as 16550. Hmm, the > only difference is a larger buffer, right? The 16550(A) is well supported under FreeBSD. The sio driver automatically detects it. The noteworthy feature of the 16550A over the previous generations is that is has a 16 word fifo. This reduces the number of interrupts generated. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/