Re: [PATCH] serial: remove "too much work for irq" printk

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sat Jan 12 2008 - 16:45:30 EST


> This is going to put trouble in other places unless, at least, it can be
> turned off. The UART serial interface is heavily emulated as a console
> interface without an actual serial port behind it, both in hardware and
> software. Rates will typically vastly exceed real serial port rates,

Yes Dell do it, HP do it, IBM do it. Have done for years, never caused us
a problem. Its only KVM tripping it.

As to bit rate we support up to about 1 to 1.5 Mbit.

Alan
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