Re: Inter-Character Delay

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On Tue 26 Feb 2008 12:11, Russell King pondered:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11:58AM -0500, Robin Getz wrote:
> > ping.
> > 
> > Comments appreciated.
> 
> ascii-xfr does inter-line and inter-character delays without requiring
> any kernel modifications - used it with some dumb boot loaders which
> required 'mem deposit <address> <word>' to be sent slowly to the target.

Thanks for the pointer.

Solving the problem in userspace (with tcdrain and udelay) when some hardware 
can do the same thing with zero overhead - doesn't seem like the most 
efficient way to do things....

It also lacks the ability to work with pre-existing user space applications.

-Robin
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