From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Larmour To: Alex Lennon Cc: Gary Thomas , ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ECOS] Re: Romboot in i386 (continued) - comms. problems Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 10:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <3B781241.61389C3C@redhat.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-08/msg00417.html Alex Lennon wrote: > > I take your point that I can enable the FIFOs and add code to the handler to > deal with this. > However, to support FIFOs I need to buffer up the incoming characters on > each > cyg_hal_plf_serial_getc_nonblock() call. Why? Just enable the FIFOs and leave it at that. If interrupts are disabled, the HAL code won't notice any difference. Jifl -- Red Hat, Rustat House, Clifton Road, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 (1223) 271062 Maybe this world is another planet's Hell -Aldous Huxley || Opinions==mine