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Re: Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program

To: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program
From: Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
Date: 08 Nov 2000 10:46:42 +0100
Cc: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>, "Ecos-List (E-mail)" <ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <B1F6452C89AFD411AE0800A0CC734C23014FFA@EMAIL1> <20001108103515.L3684@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch>

>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Lunn <andrew.lunn@ascom.ch> writes:

>> 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 ?

Andrew> I've done this on the EBSA. I just configure the application
Andrew> with the serial driver and it works OK. I guess the
Andrew> application serial driver stomps over redboots driver and all
Andrew> is happy. This could be platform dependant though.

Correct. And it's like that for all targets.

Jesper

References:
- Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program
  - From: Fabrice Gautier
- Re: Serial port used by both RedBoot and a program
  - From: Andrew Lunn

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