Re: Need info about serial port programming -UPDATE

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:33:02 +0100 (MET)

Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Even if you're onlysampling at a rate of ~500 Hz or so, you probably
> want to do this using RT Linux, using a kernel module, and hitting the

The question is wether he needs the RT aspects. I had understood that
he can CLOCK(*) the device. So as long as he's doing the toggeling at the
right average speed, everything is fine.

Roger.

(*) many clocks are equidistant. Many don't need to be as long as you
adhere to the "min low time" and the "min high time". 

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