Re: [REVIEW] move tty lock/initial up in the stack

From: Marcel Moolenaar (marcel_at_xcllnt.net)
Date: 06/20/04

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    Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 10:57:11 -0700
To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>

    On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 10:50:00AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
    >
    > Of course I'm reimplementing the Cyclades Z driver to try to use
    > uart, which is why I'm getting curious. I don't know if this will
    > wind up working or not, but since 95% of the hardware interface is two
    > circular buffers in memory, which does seem to map mostly onto
    > Marcel's model. Time will tell... I also have porting the stallion
    > driver to current. I can do this by a simple hack on the old driver,
    > or a rewrite. I'll use my Z experience to decide.

    You probably want to review my uart(4) notes WRT multiport cards:
            http://wiki.daemon.li/index.pl?Uart(4)

    This may or may not align with your thinking. If not, maybe we
    should quickly touch bases...

    PS: I just added cyclades to the list of references there. Feel free
        to add more or replace this with a better one. 

    -- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net
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