Subject: Re: Serial port problems
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/23/1997 20:36:25
On Fri, May 23, 1997 at 10:44:11AM -0400, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Of course, it's alway possible to have lots of data `on the line' but
> >16 more bytes should never matter.
>
> I'd like to say that I've observed that it does indeed matter.
>
> With the old serial drivers, I could upgrate the firmware from NetBSD;
> with the new ones, I cannot.
Even the driver in 1.2 fills up the whole 16-byte FIFO. I don't know what
the current driver does, but it can't put more than 16 bytes in the FIFO.
:-)
-jm
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