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List:       netbsd-port-sparc
Subject:    Re: fast serial ports
From:       Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon () widomaker ! com>
Date:       2002-02-18 18:47:01
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 10:39:03AM +0100, Volker Borchert wrote:
> In message <20020215113604.A10997@widomaker.com> you write:
> 
> |> This sounds good.  You think the other Magma boards are close enough
> |> to get them working with the same driver, just in case I never come
> |> across this particular board?
> 
> Well AFAIR the dirver Magma supplies for SunOS is an "all-in-one"
> type which should support any serial/parallel board. So either
> this driver is a really complicated thing, or they have used the
> same chips on all of their boards.

I noticed that, and if I get another small Sun, I might just use it for
the gateway and run SunOS on it.

> |> Yes, and I know about the interrupt storms.
> 
> -v please?

Verbose?

Interrupt storms: thousands of interrupts per second from running at
76800bps, and 10-30% CPU usage.  PPP even at 38400bps eats a lot of CPU
on a Sun workstation.

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