Re: uart vs sio differences ?

From: Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 10:13:30 -0800
On Dec 9, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Scott Long wrote:

> That aside, I think what needs to happen is for the driver to use the
> interrupt handler to pull the bytes out of the hardware and into an
> internal lockless ring buffer, then schedule the swi to process the  
> ring
> buffer.

The uart(4) driver is exactly doing what you describe.

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Marcel Moolenaar
xcllnt_at_mac.com
Received on Tue Dec 09 2008 - 17:13:32 UTC

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