[haiku-development] Re: pc_serial?
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 01:55:35 +0200
On 16/08/2014 17:28, François Revol wrote:
> On 16/08/2014 04:40, Pete Goodeve wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 03:48:13AM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
>>> 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 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.
>>>
>> Thanks for the clarification. How hard is it going to be to do the
>> update? If it's a reasonable job, I might take it on, but ATM I know
>> nothing of the area.
>
> Well I should probably do is as I wrote the driver...
I did some fixes and cleanups in hrev47705, but we're not there yet.
The new tty module requires passing data outside of the IRQ handler,
so I'll have to add a pumping thread just like the usb_serial driver.
François.
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