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From: pepersb@cuug.ab.ca (Brad Pepers)
Subject: Re: 16550 detection
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 06:39:07 GMT
References: <CyIzxz.97A@cuug.ab.ca> <39311m$t8q@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <MICHAELV.94Oct31115147@MindBender.HeadCandy.com>
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In article <MICHAELV.94Oct31115147@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon) writes:
>In article <39311m$t8q@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> mlord@bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>
>   In article <CyIzxz.97A@cuug.ab.ca> pepersb@cuug.ab.ca writes:
>
>   <couple of days I've loaded Linux on 2 systems that swear they use 16550's
>   <and seem to work fine when I use setserial to say the are 16550's but are
>   <only recognized as 16450's by Linux.  Anyone know why?  Anyone got a clue
>
>   16550's are useless (no better than 16450's).
>   What you need are 16550A's.
>
>Semantic nit-picking...  I'm sure he was using the term ``16550'' in
>the general sense to imply any 16550-type chip.

Yes it is!  16550-type chips are what I meant!

>I've never seen this on NetBSD (but I certainly haven't tried every
>16550 chip).  You might look at the NetBSD com.c driver and see what
>it does.

I'd like to have a look at it.  Don't suppose you could mail it to me?
Not sure where to find it and don't want to download the entire FreeBSD
distribution for 1 source file.

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