Subject: Re: Serial Drivers
To: None <dsteptoe@ott.hookup.net>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 10/10/1996 11:32:44
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 20:34:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Dean Steptoe <dsteptoe@ott.hookup.net>
> 
> Has there been any improvements made in the serial driver in the latest
> NetBSD? I get buffer overruns at 19,200 which isn't seriouly hampering
> performance.  But I would like to put a 28.8 modem on the machine for PPP
> dailup purposes.  I would think a Sun 3/50 would atleast be able to handle
> 19,200 and maybe even 38,400 without too much difficulty.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dean.

There were several improvements since the 1.1 driver, and I've since
received another fix relevant to H/W flow control that is not yet in
the source tree.  (Bug causes output to fail to restart.)

Gordon