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> >  It's a strange piece of hardware that loses interrupts on getting overrun.
> > :-)
> 
> The 4 second pause slows down the debug/test cycle a lot. I'm using a
> net booted monolithic kernel on the hardware and using the reset
> button every time I make a change.

I'm not going to have much feelings for you here... I've debugged the
kernel on setups that need 30mn to reboot :-)

Ben.