Re: PLIP without IRQ

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:47:47 +0100


>I'm not sure how that would work, it could be periodically polled I
>guess, but it would be horribly slow I suspect.

It would probably be just-about doable if someone was sufficiently sick. The
actual data transfer is done with a polling loop anyway so all you have to do
is look to see whether the other end is trying to start sending a packet every
so often - say every timer tick. Not nice but possible.

p.

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