Lpc2000

At 02:10 PM 4/14/05 -0500, Bill Knight wrote:
>One small feature I would like is to have an interrupt generated as
>the THRE interrupt is enabled, if the THRE bit is already set.  This
>allows characters to be placed into an ouput queue and the THRE
>interrupt enabled as a means of both starting a transmission as well
>as adding characters to a transmission in progress.  It also allows
>the forground process to do it without ever disabling global
>interrupts.

While we're at it, how about a pseudo-DMA process to deal with the 
I/O?  That would reduce/eliminate the need for FIFO's.

Robert

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