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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com>
Cc: Linux on MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: sgiserial.c
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 05:45:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001010054506.F25504@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3417.971147957@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com>; from kaos@melbourne.sgi.com on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:19:17PM +1100

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 02:19:17PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:

> >     The serial ports of all SGI systems support several standard rates
> >     up through 38400 bps (see termio(7) for these standard rates).
> >     The serial ports on O2, OCTANE, Origin2000, Onyx2 and Origin200
> >     systems also support
> >     
> >                                31250   57600
> >                                76800   115200
> 
> FWIW, O2's may be rated at 115200 but I can kill my O2 by feeding it
> the output from a Linux serial console at 115200.  No diagnostics, just
> a solid machine hang.

The Origin's IOC3 16550 can go even higher rates at low interrupt load
due to it's higher crystal frequency and a NIC-like DMA descriptors.
We just don't do it yet in the Linux driver ...

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-10  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-09 20:32 sgiserial.c Gordon McNutt
2000-10-10  3:13 ` sgiserial.c Marcus Herbert
2000-10-10  3:19   ` sgiserial.c Keith Owens
2000-10-10  3:45     ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2000-10-10  9:41       ` sgiserial.c Alan Cox
2000-10-10  9:41         ` sgiserial.c Alan Cox

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