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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc gettytab 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980723130926.24078B-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199807222232.XAA13859@awfulhak.org>

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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Brian Somers wrote:

> > >How does this work at the UART level then ?  I thought the lowest 
> > >value that can be put in the divisor port is 1 (== 115200).  Do 16550 
> > >UARTS have the ability to understand 0 or something ?
> > 
> > Who said it would work with any specific hardware ?
> > 
> > It allows you to instruct hardware that can do 230400 to do so.
> 
> Ah, so this speed is essentially for non-UART hardware ?  I can 
> understand that.  Thanks.

  To be clear, 16650 UARTs support 230.4k (and higher rates).  See
archives for long description on how they do this.  FreeBSD-current has
some specific support for 16650 UARTs already.

> > --
> > Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
> > phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
> > "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
>       <http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....

Tom


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