From: Ullrich von Bassewitz (uz_at_musoftware.de)
Date: 2003-04-12 18:29:01
Hi!
I've had a first look today on how to redesign the RS232 routines when
converting the drivers to loadable modules. Two questions I'm undecided about
are:
1. Would it make sense to support more than one serial port?
2. If so, would it make sense to allow different drivers for the ports?
1. has some overhead, because a port number must be passed to several
routines, 2. has even more overhead, because the different ports must be
handled in the rs232 kernel functions (outside the drivers). Mixing the two
options (say: port #1 and #2 are handled by driver #1, while port #3 is
handled by driver #2) is so complex that I would say it's not worth the
trouble.
My approach would be to handle just one port as it is now (the 6502 has
difficulties handling even one port with decent baud rates), but since I'm
about to do a redesign on the API level, I thought I'd better ask...
Comments anyone?
Regards
Uz
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Ullrich von Bassewitz uz_at_musoftware.de
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