Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:07:22 -0700 From: "William Woods" <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Doug Rabson" <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: silo overflows...... Message-ID: <000101be90f1$f1ba7780$204c93cd@william> In-Reply-To: <199904272042.NAA06795@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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