I am modeling after the slip driver

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Nov 15 14:59:30 EST 2016


David, on Tue 15 Nov 2016 14:54:28 -0500, wrote:
> The slip driver looks to me like a good place to start.

That's an instance of line discipline, yes.

> It does most of what I want as far as tty manipulation etc.

But it lacks what I mentioned in my other thread: actually opening the
serial port from the kernel itself. In slirp it's a userland process
which does this. That's the tricky part which will probably need some
changes to the rest of the kernel.

Samuel


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