kdb041: Serial Ports Hanging During QNX4 Shutdown

Title: Serial Ports Hanging During QNX4 Shutdown
Keywords: Dev.ser QNX4.2x
Date: November 29, 1996
KDB: KDB-041
Revision: 0.00
Author: Support
Distribution: External

Topic: Dev.ser … dumb serial ports … qnx4 shutdown

  • If an external serial device continues to send data to the onboard serial ports during a QNX shutdown … the onboard serial ports may become non functional because the PIC may be in an invalid state… and a hardware reset may be required to clear this condition.
  • QNX Dev.ser has a new switch: (ver 4.21 and later)
  • w Enables hardware shutdown on SIGPWR
  • W Disable hardware shutdown shutdown on SIGPWR

End of KDB-041

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