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Re: I/O CAN driver and MCF52xx FlexCAN device driver
- From: Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>
- To: Uwe Kindler <uwe_kindler at web dot de>
- Cc: eCos patches <ecos-patches at ecos dot sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 04:42:32 -0600
- Subject: Re: I/O CAN driver and MCF52xx FlexCAN device driver
- Organization: MLB Associates
- References: <2037293997@web.de>
On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 08:49 +0200, Uwe Kindler wrote:
> > This is a pretty extensive framework and driver. Do you
> have any documentation and test programs to go with it?
>
> At the moment I do not have any documentation and test programs
> besides our application that uses the driver. Could you please
> tell me what do you expect? I could code a loopback driver for
> testing the generic I/O CAN driver - like it is available for
> serial driver. But for testing the FlexCAN hardware driver a
> running CAN bus is necessary so it is only possible to provide
> some interactive tests here. For the documentation part I could
> only provide a plain text documentation because I'm not familiar
> with SGML documentation.
At least an example/test which shows how to open, configure, read
and write packets on the interface. A simple loopback test would
be fine.
Don't worry that it can only run on your FlexCAN hardware - the
test itself can show how to use the interfaces.
>
> Btw. the I/O CAN driver is very similar to the serial driver
> because the serial driver was the base for CAN driver.
Expect some further comments in a few days - the maintainers are
examining your contribution now.
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