Har. The same
chip is used for ttyb. And even ttya can have its
parameters changed.
Sure it can. But does anyone run their consoles at anything
other
than 9600 8N1? Seriously?
I don't - but I _have_ used plenty of other settings on ttyb.
Including wanting some at high enough baud rates that I had to hack
NetBSD's driver to use the chip's ?1 mode, which leads into the "weird
set of BRG pre-divisors" hardware issue I mentioned below.
My meaning of "awesome" (though I said
"fantastic") is that I've
designed systems with this chip and it was really, really easy to
deal with and performed extremely well.
I'm glad you found it easy to deal with. I don't, especially not as
compared to what it could be.
How many systems have you designed with it?
None. Nor am I likely to; all the failings I listed an email or two
ago mean I would likely select some other chip if I were looking for a
standalone UART. So what?
I _have_ hacked on the NetBSD driver for it, as I mentioned. Just
because it satisfies _your_ needs doesn't mean it's not
broken-as-designed for, for example, applications wanting normal
RTS/CTS hardware flow control.
/~\ The ASCII Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
X Against HTML mouse at
rodents-montreal.org
/ \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B