Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 19:53:08 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: brian@easy1.mediacity.com (Brian Litzinger) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: new sio delays Message-ID: <199603040923.TAA12382@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199603040915.BAA18612@MediaCity.com> from "Brian Litzinger" at Mar 4, 96 01:15:02 am
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Brian Litzinger stands accused of saying: > > > Some ISA 'internal modems' don't have real 8250-family UARTs, they attempt > > to emulate them using their onboard processors. > > > > Most of these are quite slow at generating interrupts, and responding in > > general, so waiting a while gives them time to react. > > > > Over the last six months or so, we've had a number of successful results > > with these delays, hence bde committing them. > > Is that why I no longer have to delete test 5 from sio.c to get my > Cardinal PCMCIA modem to be recognized? That's the general idea, yes. > Brian Litzinger -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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