Subject: Re: 1.3.3 and com port performance
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/02/1999 22:54:41
In message <199903030431.PAA07240@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>
Simon Burg e writes:
>Is a 486/66 with a 16450 fast enough to drive a 28k modem (with PPP)
>under NetBSD 1.3.3?  The current machine is a 386/20 with a 16550
>running NetBSD 1.1, and it gets _heaps_ of silo overflows.  I'm about to
>upgrade a machine, but can't find a spare 16550 multi I/O card, and this
>will save me going out to buy one.
>
>A _quick_ check of the port-i386 archives didn't seem to have an answer.

I should hope so.  Linux can keep up with more than that even on a
486/33 with a 16450. And iirc, Linux on a Gateway handbook (486/66, 16450)
could keep up with 115200.

I hope NetBSD can keep up, but if it can't, we should bloody well fix it.