Subject: Re: malloc above splimp
To: None <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu>
From: Niklas Hallqvist <niklas@appli.se>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 08/31/1994 23:23:35
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael L Hitch <osymh@gemini.oscs.montana.edu> writes:

Michael> On Aug 31, 8:23pm, Niklas Hallqvist wrote:
>> follow.  What I find peculiar is that our good old serial driver
>> doesn't trigger this.  Am I forgetting a fact?  It may of course be
>> pure luck

Michael>   I think you misunderstand the Amiga serial driver.  The
Michael> only thing done at interrupt level 5 is the character is read
Michael> from the serial input buffer and stored into a local fifo
Michael> buffer.  The fifo buffer is processed later by a routine
Michael> called from the vertical blank interrupt.

Doh!  Brain-damage... I *knew* this, I don't know why I mixed it up
with the sicallbacks.  Anyway, Maybe I should do it like this for my
COM driver as well...  Well, it would use up 1/2 a K for every port
then, maybe not too good.

Niklas

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