From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Insanely high baud rates
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:40:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181011214035.GC565@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8A583BC1-A295-48D2-B4C3-3E70AA50D035@zytor.com>
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 07:14:30AM -0700, hpa@zytor.com wrote:
> >
> >I mean - what is the baud rate of a pty ?
>
> Whatever the master wants it to be...
I think Alan's point is that it is highly unlikely you would be able
to push the equivalent of 4 gbps through a PTY layer. The TTY later
was never engineered for those speeds, and the real question is ---
what's the point? That's what Ethernet is for.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-11 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-09 19:19 Insanely high baud rates H. Peter Anvin
2018-10-09 19:51 ` Willy Tarreau
2018-10-09 20:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-10-10 20:17 ` Alan Cox
2018-10-10 20:20 ` hpa
2018-10-11 12:31 ` Alan Cox
2018-10-11 14:14 ` hpa
2018-10-11 21:40 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2018-10-12 5:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2018-10-11 19:36 ` Craig Milo Rogers
2018-10-11 19:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
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