On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Erik Fair wrote:

> At 11:12 +0100 11/13/99, Hauke Fath wrote:
> >Make that 115200 and (theoretically) 230400 for mac68k after Scott's recent
> >changes. These two may be of pretty restricted value, but see PR#8070.

One note, the patch won't work on port-sparc as they lack the clock
sourcing code macppc & mac68k have.

> The ability to run NetBSD serial ports at high rates with no data 
> loss is in fact very valuable if we want to take advantage of devices 
> such as this.
> 
> 	http://www.metricom.com/
> 	http://www.ricochet.net/
> 
> Ideally, we (NetBSD) should always be able to run all peripheral 
> hardware at the limits of its performance...

The problem is that we might well be running the serial ports at their
limit now. :-) Do the sun's and sparc's have DMA for the serial ports?

Take care,

Bill