[haiku-development] Re: Wish List/GSoC Ideas

  • From: Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:37:52 +0100

Sean Collins wrote:
> There is a small group of people still using serials ports.
>
> Eprom Programmers "a few of those still in use"
> Guys tunning cars " most have usb to serial cables now"
>
> I am sure theres a few more uses but you can't even buy a Laptop
> anymore with a serial port.
>
>
> As  much as I miss my serial port I think its time to call it
> deprecated.

Well, it will be better if we could avoid forcing users to buy an USB
serial adapter
because his native serial port is not supported anymore.

Otherwise, I agree, USB CDC has replaced legacy serial connection.
Any cell phone that could be used as a modem use it, legacy serial
adapter too, and
pratically all hardware programming/debugging board switched to USB.

What matter more now is feature driver over USB, which we're far from
being as complete as one would expect.
I guess finishing my lisbusb port could help here, though.


Bye,
  Philippe.

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