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From: martin@erde.GUN.de (Martin Seine)
Subject: Re: 16550 detection
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References: <CMETZ.94Oct30051603@itchy.inner.net> <SRA.94Oct30162124@rurha-pente.epilogue.com> <CMETZ.94Oct30192816@itchy.inner.net> <CyIzxz.97A@cuug.ab.ca> <39311m$t8q@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 12:56:13 GMT
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Mark Lord (mlord@bnr.ca) wrote in msg <39311m$t8q@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca>:
> 16550's are useless (no better than 16450's).

No. Not so easy. 82550 are detected as 16550 and work fine with enabled FIFO.

ciao
Martin
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Martin Seine                                       martin@erde.gun.de
                                        Martin.Seine@FernUni-Hagen.de
Unix soit qui mal y pense.