we need a new way to access serial ports

[Samuel Thibault]

Trevor Saunders, le Sun 27 Jun 2010 23:04:47 -0400, a écrit :
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:17:09AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Adam Myrow, le Sun 27 Jun 2010 17:04:52 -0500, a écrit :
> > > How does the kernel code for supporting serial consoles solve these 
> > > problems?  Does it work on PCI cards, or just the standard serial ports? 
> > 
> > It works for all, but doesn't provide read support, which is a problem
> > for most adapters.
> 
> what? how can this be? serial consoles send data back for keys etc I believe how does that work?

Ah, you mean the standard serial console, not the early serial console.

Standard serial consoles are run from userland, opening /dev/ttyS0 etc.

Samuel