From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 8 14: 9:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6265E14C0E for ; Sat, 8 May 1999 14:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA19530; Sat, 8 May 1999 17:09:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 17:09:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Matthew Thyer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ?? In-Reply-To: <22229.926181448@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 8 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > 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. Hmm, so now you're the second to cite the possibility of X masking interrupts too long, eh? ;) Actually, I use MAME all the time, and this problem does NOT occur (XF86_SVGA on an S3 ViRGE/DX). Oh, user-ppp too of course. If I could have reproduced this problem, I would have replied. > > 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. MAME is a great piece of software, and in and of itself entirely legal; what problem do you have with it? > > - Jordan > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \ _ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___)___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message