Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:41:59 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Cc: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: UART 16650 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970226093821.18969A-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970225161351.2786A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Samy Touati wrote: > > > Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Samy Touati wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I ordered a serial card with the 16650 uart from byterunner, and I was > > > > wondering if there's any kind of software support for this uart. > > > > I know that linux has a driver along with win95 and win 3.11 . > > > > > > The standard "sio" serial port driver does it. [stuff deleted] > I'm sorry, I misread the number in your first message as 16550. Hmm, the > only difference is a larger buffer, right? The 16550(A) is well supported under FreeBSD. The sio driver automatically detects it. The noteworthy feature of the 16550A over the previous generations is that is has a 16 word fifo. This reduces the number of interrupts generated. Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/
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