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Re: programming the serial port
Greg KH wrote:
>
> You do not need to write any kernel module, this can all be done from
> userspace. Please see one of the many Linux Serial Programming HOWTOs
> that are available.
I've beel looking in this HOWTO (not *that* thoroughly, just took a
quick look and watched the programming examples) and as far as I can
see, all these examples *do* use a _file descriptor_ and 'interact'
with the serial port by sending and writing data to that _file
descriptor_... and that's *not* what I have to do: i have to program
the UART directly, that is 'set individual bits on the UART' up until
i manage to send something out and receive something...
I guess I will be needing the inb, outb or ioctl system calls, right?
Greetzzz,
Bart
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