Re: RFA: pause after sending S-records to ROM68K monitor

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot 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

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