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Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel by dboreham on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @12:00AM (#45099014)
Quick note that parity was never used in "characters stored". It was only ever used in transmission, and checked/removed by hardware[1].

[1] Yes, I remember you could bit-bang a UART in software, but still the parity bit didn't escape the serial decoding routine.

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