V8.x-PRE2 Serious PUC problem - Heads Up!

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Thu Nov 19 18:29:00 UTC 2009


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 09:34:01AM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 09:27 AM 11/19/2009, Karl Denninger wrote:
> >It's not.
> >
> >What does that do?
> 
> From the man page,
> 
>      With flags encoded as:
>      0x00010   device is potential system console
>      0x00080   use this port for remote kernel debugging
>      0x00100   set RX FIFO trigger level to ``low'' (NS8250 only)
>      0x00200   set RX FIFO trigger level to ``medium low'' (NS8250 only)
>      0x00400   set RX FIFO trigger level to ``medium high'' (default, NS8250
>                only)
>      0x00800   set RX FIFO trigger level to ``high'' (NS8250 only)
> 
> You might still want to try adjusting how fast the FIFOs are flushed
> to see if thats your issue.

Has anyone considered involving Marcel Moolenaar in this conversation,
given that he's responsible for uart(4)?  :-)  I've CC'd him here.

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