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Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:17:17 +0100
From:   Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Insanely high baud rates
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On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:19:04 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:

> [Resending to a wider audience]
> 
> In trying to get the termios2 interface actually implemented in glibc,
> the question came up if we will ever care about baud rates in excess of
> 4 Gbps, even in the relatively remote future.

Even RS485 at 4MBits involves deep magic. I think we are fairly safe. Not
only that but our entire tty layer isn't capable of sustaining anything
even remotely in that range.

I think its non issue.

Alan