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Re: Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program
- To: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 10:35:15 +0100
- Cc: "Ecos-List (E-mail)" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <B1F6452C89AFD411AE0800A0CC734C23014FFA@EMAIL1>
> I have a program that need to use a serial port. Debugging is done via
> ethernet port but Redboot use the serial port to do some output.
>
> How does this is supposed to be handled? Do I have to use a redboot which
> does not use the serial port at all? Or can i hope that a program being
> configured to use a serial port coudl use it with no problems ?
I've done this on the EBSA. I just configure the application with the
serial driver and it works OK. I guess the application serial driver
stomps over redboots driver and all is happy. This could be platform
dependant though.
Andrew