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RE: Re: Romboot in i386 (continued) - comms. problems
- To: Alex Lennon <ajlennon at arcom dot co dot uk>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Re: Romboot in i386 (continued) - comms. problems
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 04:39:22 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 13-Aug-2001 Alex Lennon wrote:
> Looking at these serial drivers it seems to me that somebody has implemented
> a polled mode schema on both Rx and Tx. Could somebody tell me if this is
> correct ?
>
> If so, then before I dive straight in and rewrite the code, is there any
> reason
> I shouldn't just use the 16x5x drivers already in eCos ?
>
RedBoot can only use polled drivers and is not set up to use the "normal"
serial I/O in eCos.
Perhaps it's just a matter of not using the FIFOs appropriately in the
HAL [diag] polled routines?