From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 27 14: 7:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [205.147.64.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91B9B15150 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from william (usr1-31.cybcon.com [205.147.76.32]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id OAA17088; Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "William Woods" To: "Terry Lambert" , "Doug Rabson" Cc: Subject: RE: silo overflows...... Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:07:22 -0700 Message-ID: <000101be90f1$f1ba7780$204c93cd@william> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199904272042.NAA06795@usr04.primenet.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cool.....ahh...you wouldent happen to have the laying around would ya? William -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Terry Lambert Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 1:42 PM To: Doug Rabson Cc: wwoods@cybcon.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: silo overflows...... > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message