9 bit serial / non-blocking TCSADRAIN

9 bit serial / non-blocking TCSADRAIN

[Baltazár Radics]

Hello!

I want to use a raspberry pi's serial to communicate over a protocol
that uses 9-bit characters, so currently I'm using the stick parity
mode (CMSPAR) and toggling between odd and even parity, then using
tcsetattr with TCSADRAIN as the second argument, which blocks until all
bytes are transmitted. Is there a non-blocking api to do the same
thing, so I can use it from poll / select? (If there's a better way to
do 9 bit character size, that'd be even better. For my protocol, the
9th bit is only used to tell address bytes from data bytes, so I don't
have to change it often, so I guess my current method isn't too
horrible.)

Thanks!

RE: 9 bit serial / non-blocking TCSADRAIN

[David Laight]

From: Baltazár Radics
> Sent: 05 May 2022 18:02
> 
> I want to use a raspberry pi's serial to communicate over a protocol
> that uses 9-bit characters, so currently I'm using the stick parity
> mode (CMSPAR) and toggling between odd and even parity, then using
> tcsetattr with TCSADRAIN as the second argument, which blocks until all
> bytes are transmitted. Is there a non-blocking api to do the same
> thing, so I can use it from poll / select? (If there's a better way to
> do 9 bit character size, that'd be even better. For my protocol, the
> 9th bit is only used to tell address bytes from data bytes, so I don't
> have to change it often, so I guess my current method isn't too
> horrible.)

Does anything give the option of generating non-hdlc synchronous data?
You might be able to use two bytes to generate a single 9-bit
async character or three bytes to generate two 9-bit characters.

	David

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