Re: The stability crisis

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:39:18 +0100 (GMT)


On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Keith Owens wrote:

> The only reason the serial console works is because it runs in polling
> mode and does busy wait in the kernel - no interrupts.

Parallel port console does the same. As you note, it has to in order to
be useful.

Tim.
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