Re: Changes to UART ns8250

On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 22:36 +0200, Zbigniew Bodek wrote:
> Hello Adrian,
> 
> Thank you for your remarks.
> Please check my answers in-line.
> 
> Best regards
> Zbigniew Bodek
> 
> 
> 2013/10/7 Adrian Chadd <adrian_at_freebsd.org>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > You should add:
> >
> > * a loop counter, to break out after a while;
> >
> [ZBB] In general as long as UART is busy we cannot proceed but if the
> timeout occurs we could return an error. Do you agree?
> 
> > * a DELAY(1) or something.
> >
> [ZBB] DELAY is also a busy wait after all. The reasonable solution might be
> to use ns8250_delay() to get the transmission time and use it for timeout
> from the first point. I would DELAY(1) in each loop and decrement value
> acquired from ns8250_delay(). The loop should break during that time or we
> return an error. What do you think?
> 

Is it possible to not busy-wait at all?  Something like the attached?

-- Ian