From: "Jiří Prchal" <jiri.prchal@aksignal.cz>
To: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Support for RS485 on 8250 clone
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:10:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D73ACD.4010602@aksignal.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPybu_2XurwztXTo+KwqKw1NpKFTLgPQ5AHyuO-z7-=65oAGqw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,
as I know, the 8250 chip does not support RS485 rx/tx hw switching. You can do sw switching on some gpio.
HW switching suports 16550 or higher.
Dne 28.7.2014 v 17:19 Ricardo Ribalda Delgado napsal(a):
> Hello
>
> I have a device with a Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 Uart device.
>
> One of the uarts is used as half duplex rs485 serial port. This means
> that it needs to be configured properly (logical level of rts, delays,
> etc...)
>
> I see that there is an API on the kernel to do this (TIOCGRS485),
> unfortunately the 8250 driver does not support it.
>
> 1) Is there any interest on supporting this kind of hardware on the kernel?
It would be nice.
>
> 2) Some driver that I could use for inspiration?
Try Advantech web site, they have some, but not GPL.
>
> Thanks and best regards!
>
>
>
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-29 6:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-28 15:19 Support for RS485 on 8250 clone Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
2014-07-28 16:40 ` Grant Edwards
2014-07-29 6:10 ` Jiří Prchal [this message]
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