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- >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Squier <groo@menger.eecs.stevens-tech.edu> writes:
- Bill> You are correct. It is soley a GVP problem, as they are unable
- Bill> to properly implement DMA with their boards. The "fix" is to
- Bill> patch the DMA xfer size down to 512bytes, as previously stated
- Bill> on this list. What GVPPatch does under AmigaDOS is monitor
- Bill> calls to OpenDevice() to activate the patch only during serial
- Bill> transfer sessions. (I _believe_ they hook OpenDevice(), haven't
- Bill> looked at the source...)
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- Bill> So, in theory, a "fix" for NetBSD would be to watch serial port
- Bill> opens and patch the DMA size, or simply fix the DMA size at
- Bill> 512bytes all the time. (or even just turn it off).
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- Very, very, ugly... But I will probably do just that (the seropen thingy),
- but I doubt MTK would want to incorporate such code in his pet :-)
- I'll look into it after the next source release, as I think MTK said the
- serial driver had changed.
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- Niklas
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