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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:41:02AM +0100, Colin Cholley wrote:

> I believe the extremely lousy hardware in many serial controllers
> insists on avoiding almost any latency; thus its higher priority.

Amiga internal serial receive interupt is like that, too - although we
do block it by splhigh, I think. It only feeds a private ring buffer which
is only ever accessed by a periodic soft interupt that reads it out; so
I guess it would be even ok to not block it.

Regards,
	-is

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