Re: Serial custom speed deprecated?

[Alan Cox]

Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 16:43 -0400, ysgrifennodd linux-os (Dick Johnson):
> at 75 and increases by powers-of-two. This is because the hardware
> always had fixed clocks with dividers that divided by powers-of-two.
> What is the claim for the requirement of strange baud-rates set
> as an integer of dimension "baud?" Where does this requirement
> come from and what devices use these?

A lot of chips will do all sorts of interesting speeds such as 31.5Kbit
because today the clocks are themselves quite configurable.


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