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Date:      Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:55:26 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@van-laarhoven.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        "cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org" <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, "cvs-all@FreeBSD.org" <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pc98/pc98 sio.c src/sys/conf options       options.i386 options.ia64 options.pc98 src/sys/dev/sio sio.c         sioreg.h
Message-ID:  <20020619084551.E3498-100000@uitsmijter.van-laarhoven.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020619153032.X7788-100000@gamplex.bde.org>

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> >   This facilitates the use in circumstances where you are using a serial
> >   console as well. GDB doesn't support anything higher than 9600 baud (19k2
> >   if you are lucky), but the console does.
>
> Previous version reviewed by:	bde
>
> I seem to have missed the main point of this change.  I always use gdb
> at 115200 bps on i386's (since I don't have anything faster), but
> haven't used it recently.  Not working at a low speed like 115200 is
> a bug somewhere.  The buffering by the low level console driver (none)
> is not very suitable for input faster than a human can type, and gdb
> certainly sends input faster than tha in bursts when it sends a packet,
> but problems seem to be limited by the protocol being very simple.

I've had a look at the gdb code that reads the input from the port and
from that I can't see why gdb would choke on reading from the port. I
use a 686 class machine, so it should be well fast enough to handle the
port, but anything above 19k2 gives me either spurious or permanent
timeouts. Hence the change.

Nick
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