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Re: RFA: pause after sending S-records to ROM68K monitor
- To: Jim Blandy <jimb at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: pause after sending S-records to ROM68K monitor
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 13:39:20 -0400
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010809005554.1CDB75E9D8@zwingli.cygnus.com>
> This patch creates another use of baud_rate (as set by `set baud').
> I'm not sure that's such a hot idea.
>
> But it does make `target rom68k' usable over an SSH tunnel to a
> portmaster; without the patch, GDB transmits the entire program
> immediately (I guess it gets absorbed by all the buffers between
> itself and the real board), and then times out.
Jim, while an inovative interpretation of baud, I don't know that the
patch is either correct or robust.
From memory, two things govern a serial connection:
o bandwidth
o latency
It sounds like you've got a latency problem while the patch you have is
playing with the bandwidth knob.
Andrew
--
To misquote AST: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a jumbo full of
DDS4 tapes.