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Date: Mon, 12 Jul 93 17:10:07 -0400
From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
To: nox@jelal.north.de
In-Reply-To: Juergen Lock's message of Sun, 11 Jul 93 21:38:16 CES <9307111938.AA00300@jelal.north.de>
Subject: Fast serial (was: misc kernel patches... (mostly tty stuff))
> and i still think that MiNT needs better ways to do fast RAW serial IO,
>access modem control lines and speeds >19200, change Iorec buffer sizes,
>etc.. but i'll repeat that only if you want it. :-)
I agree...But I think most of this can be done with a standalone modem
driver as opposed to being in the kernel. I've been thinking recently
that most of my TOS 1.0 hacks in MiNT's rsconf() code should really be
in a standalone device driver as well (especially since that code
still doesn't work terribly well.) I plan to start working on this at
some point, but we already know how little free time I have... I had
written a kernel patch to let FIONREAD give better answers than 0 or 1
for the modem port...but I don't think Eric ever released this (which
is probably a Good Thing).
In one of my conversations about the serial port with someone (I think
it was someone on this list) I was told that there was already a
driver along these lines that was mostly completed, but I haven't
heard anything about it since then.
--
entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.
Personal mail: entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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