Communicator Crashes X II

[Takashi Oe]

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kevin Puetz wrote:

> A serial port buffer issue is behind the 'FB. overflow ####' crash, also 
> often exposed during VT changes while PPP is running.

I think this crash will occur less often, once serial DMA support is
present.  I've just started writing the necessary DMA code, and I hope to
get something working within a few weeks for the receiving side.

> This could be related. Or it might not. I really don't know the subsystem
> well enough to say.

I don't really know either, but kernel may be spending too much time in
the interrupt handling section of the serial driver.


Takashi Oe


[[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list.  Replies are ]]
[[ not  forced  back  to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]]
[[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]]
[[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting.   ]]