Re: Insanely high baud rates

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 10 2018 - 16:17:42 EST


On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:19:04 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [Resending to a wider audience]
>
> In trying to get the termios2 interface actually implemented in glibc,
> the question came up if we will ever care about baud rates in excess of
> 4 Gbps, even in the relatively remote future.

Even RS485 at 4MBits involves deep magic. I think we are fairly safe. Not
only that but our entire tty layer isn't capable of sustaining anything
even remotely in that range.

I think its non issue.

Alan