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- From: willmore@iastate.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Date: 17 Jul 92 20:43 MDT
- Subject: Re: Help on upgrade to 16550A UART
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- In <RL41NB4w164w@zswamp.UUCP> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
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- >wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
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- >> 16550 UART 8250 UART
- >> DTE speed 57,600 38,400
- >> than the relatively small 16550 buffer.
-
- > The 16550, even when set to trigger a receive interrupt when the buffer
- >hits 14 bytes out of 16, will trigger one at a lower buffer fill level if it
- >detects a pause (on the order of one or two byte times) that might suggest
- >that no more bytes are forthcoming. This should result in no distinguishable
- >delays.
-
- This is where my money is. Having that insanely high DTE speed causes a
- byte to come into the 16550 followed by a couple of bytes pause. This
- will cause the 16550 to interupt to flush the buffer because it thinks
- that no more data is coming. If you were to lower the DTE speed on that
- thing, you may reduce the number if interupts occuring. Wether or not
- that will increase the speed of the transfer is another matter.
-
- I hope that clears up some of the confusion. Now, what I want to know
- is does anyone have a program to detect what type of serial chip a
- computer has? Some little .com file that says:
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- port 1 is 16550
- port 2 is 16550
- port 3 is 8550
-
- Something simple like that?
-
- Thanks one and all.
- --David Willmore
- willmore@iastate.edu
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