On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:54:13PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 21:34 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 04:28:36PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:25 -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote:
> > > > Take it from someone who actually still uses dumb terminals every day,
> > > > any thing over 9600 baud still requires some kind of flow control for
> > > > reliable consistent operation. Software (Xon/Xoff) and or hardware
> > > > (RTS/RTS/DTE) flow control.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Any idea why the serial console does not work at all with flow control
> > > enabled (regardless of whether the host runs Linux or another OS)?
> >
> > I use serial console with flow control and haven't seen any problems.
> >
> > Can you describe your issue with more detail?
> >
> > What actions are required to get this "does not work at all" state?
> >
> > Are you passing a kernel parameter to enable flow control?
> >
> > Are you saying that you get kernel messages if flow control is disabled,
> > but if you subsequently enable flow control, and provoke a kernel message,
> > you don't see any messages? When you re-disable flow control, you do?
> >
>
> I believe the flow control problem is due to my cable.
>
> Anyway I don't want to confuse the issue: the problem that I want to
> solve (or at least explain) is that while the serial console works with
> the host serial port in both interrupt and polled mode, kermit file
> transfers only work in polled mode ("setserial /dev/ttyS0 irq 0").
If you're talking about sending via a polled port, the average data rate
is probably slow enough that the receiving side can keep up. But in
interrupt mode, it's probably a stream of characters at the specified
baud rate, which results in lost characters.
That explaination doesn't resolve the receiving via a polled port though.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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