Re: [gpsd-users] Speeding up autobauding

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alexander Carver <address@hidden>:
> >Can you test to see if the sync time drops at a lower speed?
> 
> Yes, it does.  The autobaud almost always starts off at 4800 and
> takes a few seconds to ramp up to 38400.

And:

>    Dropping the unused ones sped up the process.  

OK, that's what I was expecting to hear. Alas, there's no way of 
speeding this up in the general case - autobauding takes as long
as it takes, because the real constraint is the serial I/O speed.

>                                            I didn't know
> about the fixed speed option or I would have used it because I keep
> the one receiver in 38400 SiRF binary exclusively.

That's why it's there.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>