<<On Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:17:36 +1000, Bruce Evans <b...@zeta.org.au> said:
>> But the sio non-multiport stuff should be able to use RF_TIMESHARE. -- >> If I'm not using my serial port, I should be able to use my >> infrared.... > Preemptive timesharing would be hard to implement reasonably for irqs. > A uniform timeslice would have to be 86 usec to work properly for > unbuffered sio devices at 115200 bps. You're talking intervals about six orders of magnitude smaller than I am. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same woll...@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
