Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:06:27 -0500 (EST) | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: Setting terminal baud-rate. |
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:12:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Using version 2.1.131, I cannot set the baud rate of a terminal to a speed higher than 38400 baud without cheating and using the `setserial spd_hi` function. This function now results in a warning message that it has been deprecated.
>From termbits.h
#define B38400 0000017 Works and everything below. #define B57600 0010001 Sets baud-rate to about 600 baud #define B115200 0010002 Sets baud-rate to about 1240 baud #define B230400 0010003 Sets baud-rate to about 800 baud #define B460800 0010004 Sets baud-rate to about 900 baud
Is this a bug or have I forgotten to set some magic high-speed bit?
What version of libc do you have on your machine, and what application and what version are you using to set the speed? Furthermore, how are you measuring the speed?
I just timed the amount of time it took to send a largish file out the serial port, which was configured with flow-control off, and which had nothing attached to it. (i.e., "time cat large-file > /dev/ttyS0"). When I increased the speed from 38400 to 57600, the time it took to transmit the file dropped in half. When I further increased the speed to 115200 bps, the time to transmit the file dropped in half again.
If you are getting the higher speeds using setserial spd_hi, but it's not working via directly setting the baud rate, my guess is that you have an out-of-date libc, which doesn't know about speeds faster than 38400; that must be a *really* ancient libc though, which is rather curious. Kernel support for 57600 and 115200 have been around since at least the 2.0 kernel, and possibly even the 1.2 kernel. There hasn't been real need to use setserial spd_hi for years, assuming an up-to-date libc.
- Ted
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