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From: doleh@dijkstra.cba.csuohio.edu (Yaser K. Doleh)
Subject: Re: SIO/COM driver 16550A limitations?
Message-ID: <1994Jul7.234609.25018@news.csuohio.edu>
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Organization: Cleveland State University
References: <1994Jul4.130216.19263@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> <PHILS.94Jul7114917@satori.tv.tek.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 1994 23:46:09 GMT
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|> 
|> It appears that the driver is stuck in an interrupt service routine with
|> interrupts disabled. 
|> 
|> 
|> If no one has solved this, I may have to take the bull by the horns and dig
|> into it myself. Needless to say, this needs to be fixed. Anybody got a
|> solution yet?
|> 

No, I don't have a solution but I am willing to work on it with you. We can compare 
notes. I have the same exact problem. The machine just freeze whenever I try to do anything
with the 16550A serial ports. 

I am now running 1.1.5 kernel.

|> Thanks,
|> Phil
|> 
|> --
|> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|> Phil Staub, phils@tv.tv.tek.com
|> Tektronix Television Division
|> (503) 627-6910

-- 

Very Truly Yours,
Yaser Doleh <doleh@cis.csuohio.edu>
Department of Computer and Information Science
Cleveland State University           Phone: (216)687-3845
Cleveland, OH 44115                  FAX  : (216)687-5448