Re: Serial driver help

[Daris Nevil <dnevil@snmc.com>]

Navin,

Outside of the O'Reilly book "Linux Device Drivers" I don't know if a good
tutorial on writing serial device drivers.  If you come across one I'd be very
interested :-).


Good luck,
Daris Nevil
SNMC


Navin Boppuri wrote:

> Hello Daris,
>
> Thank you for the link. But all I see there is docs on how to talk to serial
> ports. I need some linux data structures info. How is serial.c organized?
> How can I port a new uart to serial.c ? etc. etc. Do you know of some place
> I can find this?
>
> Thank you,
> Navin Boppuri
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daris Nevil" <dnevil@snmc.com>
> To: "Navin Boppuri" <nboppuri@trinetcommunication.com>
> Cc: <linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Serial driver help
>
> > Navin,
> >
> > Check out http://www.qslinux.org/docs/snmc/serial/index.html, as it may
> have
> > the info that you need.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Daris Nevil
> > SNMC
> >
> > Navin Boppuri wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me where I can find some documentation on how to write
> a
> > > serial driver in linux using the serial.h and tty data structures? I am
> > > using MAX3100 uart connected to the SPI controller. The SPI driver is
> fine
> > > works just fine. I do see that uart.c is written for uarts connected on
> SMC
> > > and SCC. All I need to do is to port it for SPI.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > Navin Boppuri
> > >
> >


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