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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: New serial card development
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:26:33 +0100
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> Can it be guaranteed that it's going to be fast enough at high
> baud-rates to prevent any gap between the first byte and subsequent
> bytes?

Possibly not for some protocols (or worse yet 'almost always' for some
protocols).

It's something to look at once the basic bits are in.

> I now work for a company that has manufactured PC serial boards for
> 25+ years, and we still get regular requests for that feature (and our
> boards do support it -- though our Linux driver does not).

In which case when we get to addressing this it will be good to make
sure we cover your needs as well.

Alan