Re: amiserial.c in 2.3

[Roman Z. <zi...@fh...>]

Hi,

> Does this new serial driver work under linux/m68k? If it does, then there
> must still be something weird with the interrupt system. I get a lot of
> overruns even at 4800 bps.

With or without disk activities? Did you try hdparm?

> However the SA_INTERRUPT flag isn't checked in any relevant place, and
> afaik the serial rx interrupt still runs with all other interrupts
> enabled. This can't be the main problem though, 'cos it's not checked in
> 2.2.x either and the serial i/o in 2.2.x works decently.

The serial interrupt has still the highest priority, so it will not be
interrupted, but other interrupts might block the serial one. BTW The
interrupt stuff in arch/ppc/kernel/irq.c is used to.

bye, Roman