I've been working with the hpcmips port on my NEC MobilePro 750C and
have been trying to add kernel gdb support to the basic mips port. It
mostly seems to be working, except that I've been having trouble with
the hpcmips machine dropping incoming characters.

	Since this is entering the realm of hardware, and I know almost nothing
about this platform, I was hoping that others who have experience with
the serial port on a NEC MobilePro 750C could suggest something. I was
running at 9600 baud at the time. I tried again at 300 baud and the
problem didn't seem to reproduce, however at that speed you spend so
much time waiting for the register set to be transmitted that you want
to scream.

	BTW, I'm not doing any printfs when the character is dropped, it is
often just a single character which is dropped, and the access is via
com.c's support, com_common_getc is what it boils down to.

	Thanks!
	-- Ethan