On torsdag, mar 13, 2003, at 10:49 Europe/Copenhagen, Daniel Eggert 
wrote:

>
> On torsdag, mar 13, 2003, at 02:16 Europe/Copenhagen, John Gordon 
> wrote:
>> The problem is that sometimes when a lot of data is passing across 
>> the serial
>> link (e.g. scrolling down a page in an editor) the link will hang. 
>> The system
>> seems to be still alive (I can ping it). I will set up ssh support on 
>> it next
>> so I can take a look at what is happening, but thought I'd ask if 
>> anybody has
>> seen anything like this before?
>>
>
> This is a know problem. Try using ssh instead if you can. Hopefully 
> some day someone will fix this. It's a bug in the driver for the 
> serial port.
>

It is in the PR-database as #10540.

Is anybody working on a fix? Does anyone have a clue, what could be 
wrong? ..or how to investigate this? I guess the bug is somewhere 
inside src/sys/arch/macppc/dev/zs.c and I wouldn't mind helping...

Any comments?

Daniel