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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.ppp
- Subject: Re: sun serial >38400
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.213927.2788@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 21:39:27 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.162852.2315@hugis.nbg.sub.org> <searsk-030193070145@3.7.192.190>
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- searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin D. Sears) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec31.162852.2315@hugis.nbg.sub.org>,
- >hugibaz@hugis.nbg.sub.org (Ingo Kraupa) wrote:
- >>
- >> A few months ago someone posted that there is a patch to get higher bps-rates
- >> than 38.4kbps on a sun sparcstation. I told this to a friend, and he asked
- >> me if I can get this patch for him. I forgot the person, but I'm sure he
- >> posted to this group. Any hint would be very appreciated.
- >>
- >> -Ingo
- >Sun Consulting sales a high speed patch but it is pricy. Alternatives is to
- >get a serial port board from CoSystems(or any other 3rd party company)
- >which supports higher speed drivers with their product. The latter solution
- >is supposed to be cheaper.
-
- >Who: Kevin D. Sears-searsk@med.ge.com
- >What: System and Network Admin(a.k.a "Sr. Maintenance Droid")
- >Where: GE Medical Systems
- >Disclaimer: I know nothing for sure but I sure try hard!
-
- Here it is:
-
- From: schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: v32bis modems @ 14,400 bps on desktop Sparcs
- Date: 6 Jul 92 11:10:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jun29.183146.22097@samba.oit.unc.edu> <BOB.92Jun29172708@volitans.MorningStar.Com> <1992Jun29.221236.17474@src.umd.edu> <schneck.709948135@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <1992Jul5.172754.17748@edsr.eds.com>
- Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
- Content-Length: 2355
- Status: RO
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-
- cheeks@edsr.eds.com (Mark Costlow) writes:
-
- >Could you be more specific about how you did this?
-
- The following is from two postings from wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S.
- Rupprecht) and adrie@ica.philips.nl (Adrie Koolen):
-
- The serial (rs232 / 422) controller in the SparcStation 1, 1+ and IPC is
- a Zilog Z8530, driven at 4915200 Hz. The baud-rate depends on a divisor
- register, which is calculated as follows:
-
- divisor = 4915200 / (2 * baud_rate * 16) - 2;
- or
- baud_rate = 4915200 / ((divisor + 2) * 2 * 16)
-
- So: divisor baud_rate
- 510 300
- 62 2400
- 14 9600
- 6 19200
- 2 38400
- 1 51200
- 0 76800
-
- Now take at a look at the zs_speeds table in your /vmunix:
-
- # adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem
- physmem 27f4
- zs_speeds/16d
- _zs_speeds:
- _zs_speeds: 0 3070 2046 1394 1140 1022 766 510
- 254 126 83 62 30 14 6 2
- $q
-
- These are the divisors which are loaded into the Z8530 when you request
- a certain baud rate (the first entry is used for B0 == HANGUP which is
- handled by special code). All you have to do is change one of these
- fields to the value you want:
-
- # adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem
- physmem 27f4
- zs_speeds+2/w 0
- _zs_speeds+2: 0xbfe = 0x0
- zs_speeds/16d
- _zs_speeds:
- _zs_speeds: 0 0 2046 1394 1140 1022 766 510
- 254 126 83 62 30 14 6 2
- $q
-
- Now the entry for B50 will load 0 into the divisor register, thus you get
- 76.8kbaud if you use 'stty 50'.
-
- The adb commands as shown above will only change the running kernel (ie.
- /dev/mem), the speed table will be restored to the original at the next
- reboot. You can use "?" to change the table in /vmunix itself, so it
- will survive reboots, or you can change /usr/kvm/sys/sun4c/OBJ/zs_async.o
- to get the modified table into newly built kernels (be sure to save a copy
- of the original).
-
- As always, be careful when tinkering with your /vmunix. Your mileage may
- vary. I don't know anything, so you can hold me responsible for nothing.
- I can't speak for myself most of the time, so I can't speak for my
- employer, either.
-
- \Bernhard.
- --
- Bernhard Schneck Internet: Bernhard.Schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE
- TU Muenchen Physik
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