Question about ns16550 driver

[afraiett at bigpond.net.au (Angelo Fraietta)]

mikeci at acm.org wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I have a question about ns16550 driver. In the routine ns16550_process in
>the part which should send characters, function
>rtems_termios_dequeue_characters is called twice. This function returns 0
>if there are no characters to send. This means that you will loop forever
>here. Am I missing something?
>  
>
Is this the 16550 driver that is used also in the pc386 comm ports?

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