From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: Can I use DOSEMU for testing device driver code? Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 23:12:02 +0300 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <402D2F92.70005@aknet.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-msdos@vger.kernel.org Hello. Edenyard wrote: > It appears that DOSEMU has BIG problems when one wants to do this sort > of thing and nobody quite seems to know why. Yes, this is the case sometimes, but usually it is not. > Last time I asked about this on the mailing list, the response > I got was, "What's RTS?".... What have you expected? You haven't provided the test-case program, no logs either, you haven't even opened a bug report on SF tracker. No reply only means that noone had that problem previously. I am using the serial ports via dosemu at work every day, I can toggle both RTS and CTS lines as well as the TX line, the oscilloscope was attached just in case - so if you sumbit a bug report and provide at least some info and a test-case, perhaps your problem would have been resolved long ago already. I was saying that in that list many times and I can only repeat: problems are not get fixed themselves! You have to do at least something to get them fixed, at least open a bug report and provide a test-case (or logs, but logs not always help). Unfortunately even when explicitly asked, many people are not willing to submit a bug report. Nothing can be done in that case - game over. On the other hand, some users are not only providing a bug reports, but are also willing to do many additional tests that are required, and in most cases that works very good. Please see this as a recent example: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=884096&group_id=49784&atid=457447 Hope that helps. Be reasonable. You were asked "What's RTS" not because noone knew that:)