"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while ago I was told there are some serious problems with the > serial driver in GNUMach 1.x. This has something to do with the > allowed serial speed and PPP. > > What is the problem with Mach and what causes this problem? I'm > willing to look into this problem. Does this patch already fix the > bug? > > http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2001-10/msg00213.html > > What is the status of PPP? Does it work and if not what needs to > be done? > > Could you be a bit more specific? PPP doesn't work because you can't > do high-speed transfers AFAIK. If that works, any normal BSD PPP > user-space deamon should work (um-pppd was used before). Maybe Marcus > can elabortate about the problems in the serial driver, he was theone > digging in it.
Well, I have talked with Marcus about this. This is really hard to fix properly and it is not really important for me, so I will not do it. > Are there any PPP users out there by the way? It doesn't seem that > there are, since nobody has been annoyed about this particular problem > in a long (long!) time. Sometimes people ask about this on IRC. -- Marco _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
