From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 27 13:42:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FA114CF6 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:42:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23877; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:42:41 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd023824; Tue Apr 27 13:42:36 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA06795; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:42:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199904272042.NAA06795@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: silo overflows...... To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:42:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: wwoods@cybcon.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug Rabson" at Apr 25, 99 07:16:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I have been out of the loop for a couple days.....did anyone ever come up > > with a "quick fix" for the silo overflows when useing an external modem on > > com1? I tried lowering the baud rate all the way down to 19200 and still > > had the same problem. > > I'm starting to think that something else is wrong with this. Its almost > as if interrupts are not being delivered to the sio driver. The driver has > a poll function which will read characters (I think) but not very often. > > As an experiment, could you put a print statement in siointr() to see if > it ever gets entered. Somone posted patches to this list a while back that enabled the "fast interrupt" stuff for the alpha. It got broken when the bus space stuff went into -current. I think it hasn't been unbroken. In my experience, the patches worked fine. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message