[haiku-development] Re: pc_serial?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 03:48:13 +0200
On 16/08/2014 01:48, Pete Goodeve wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was never aware of the absence of a serial port driver on Haiku.
> In fact I thought I'd actually used it once, but I guess not! I've just
> checked back trough several years of systems and it's not on any of
> them.
>
> Yet I see that pc_serial code is in the source tree. Can it be built
> and installed? (And run...) Or is there some conflict?
>
> The reason for my query is that my current "consultee" has a central
> need for serial data. They can I asume use usb_serial with a bit of
> tweaking, but pc_serial would be simpler.
>
The driver itself works, but uses the BeOS API for the tty module, and
the one in Haiku is a little different.
The usb_serial driver has been modified to use it but not pc_serial yet.
François.
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