Posted in Patch manager IOBlix zorro serial driver

[Giorgio T. <de...@ip...>]

Hello,

Posted to patch manager my 1.0a (beta) version of serial driver as
linux 2.2.10 diff file.

WARNING: THE DRIVER I HAVE ATTACHED TO MY 07-04-2000 
E-MAIL (1.0) DOES NOT WORK!
USE THIS !

History:
had some problems with ppp connection: my IOBlix driver was buggy!
Problem discovered:
Seems that the interface do not like 64 bytes of FIFO space as 16c654 has.
Changed to 32 bytes and all worked well!
Rewritten some functions: now the driver is very similar to Gordon Huby's 
Hipercom code because: 
a) same chip's family. 
b) seems more compact code.

Tested with: 
Null modem cable connected to amiga serial and one of the IOBlix ports 
at 115200 bps with Minicom and a 25Kbytes file transferred with zmodem 
Connected succesfully with my provider with ppp 2.3.7. to post the patch

To do:
Discover why with 64 bytes of FIFO it works bad.
After this try to write code to use the advanced features of 16C654:
AutoRTS-AutoCTS, DMA block transmission if possible, Xon-Xoff soft
protocol and dynamic FIFO trigger code.

Kind regards
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                                                 Giorgio Terzi