Re: 2.2.12: serial driver swapping characters?

The Doctor What (docwhat@gerf.org)
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 17:29:39 -0500

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 08:20:48AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Let me throw in that the problem did not occur on a faster machine,
> so there might be some race conditions. Slow hardware can't explain
> swapped chracters or duplicated ones IMHO.
>
> Anyone with a real slow machine out there?

I can say it the palm problem *does* happen on a PII 333 with 128+meg of
RAM, and an AMD 400MHz with 128megs of RAM. What can I do to see if bits
are flipped?

I think I have a terminal emulator for my palm, which I
suppose I can send some character(s) repeatedly, and see if any change.

Ciao!

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