On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:21:18PM -0500, Robin Getz wrote: > 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.... I know of no serial hardware which can insert arbitary delays inbetween characters. > It also lacks the ability to work with pre-existing user space > applications. So one could say those applications are buggy. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
