Re: How to disable the transmit FIFO?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2010-11-24, Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de> wrote:
>> Specifically, if you use setserial to configure a serial port so that
>> its UART is a 16450, it will force the transmit FIFO to be unused.
>
> I tried that, but no change.  Sending a line of 21 characters to the port,
> I see only two trailing edges of CTS, which is consistent with receiving
> three characters by the SBC.  The other characters are sent and lost.
>
> The SBC on the other end clears RTS immediatly after receiving a
> character.  Linux may send one character at this moment, but that would
> be stored in the receiver buffer and the SBC only asserts RTS if the
> receiver buffer is empty.  Instead it sends multiple characters, flooding
> the SBC.

But the Linux box does eventually stop sending, but it takes too long
to stop?

It sounds like you need to buy a serial card that does RTS/CTS flow
control in hardware.

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