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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))
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- > 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).
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- 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.
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