Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:42:29 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows...... Message-ID: <199904272042.NAA06795@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904251912220.28665-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 25, 99 07:16:28 pm
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> > I have been out of the loop for a couple days.....did anyone ever come up > > with a "quick fix" for the silo overflows when useing an external modem on > > com1? I tried lowering the baud rate all the way down to 19200 and still > > had the same problem. > > I'm starting to think that something else is wrong with this. Its almost > as if interrupts are not being delivered to the sio driver. The driver has > a poll function which will read characters (I think) but not very often. > > As an experiment, could you put a print statement in siointr() to see if > it ever gets entered. Somone posted patches to this list a while back that enabled the "fast interrupt" stuff for the alpha. It got broken when the bus space stuff went into -current. I think it hasn't been unbroken. In my experience, the patches worked fine. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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