Re: Uartlite driver & CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL

["David H. Lynch Jr." <dhlii@dlasys.net>]

    One of the key differences between my uartlite driver and Peter's
is that like many other serial drivers I have a timer to support irqless
use. Just like Peter has UartLite Like devices with 16bit datapaths,
I have UartLites with no interrupts.

   I have tried (unsuccessfully) several times to migrate my timer
code into Peter's driver. This is probably the most fundimental
remaining reason I can not use Peter's driver.

    More recently I noticed a CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL option show
up. There are remarks that this is similar to NETPOLL - though
it seems to be implimented using a getc and putc rather than a
poll entry.

    Is this a general serial facility, rather than just for consoles ?
    If I create the polled getc/putc routines can I expect a serial driver
to be functional without having to implement  my own  timer based
polling ?
   
    Is this the proper way to do this ?





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