Device Driver Skeleton?

[Angelo Fraietta]

angelo wrote:

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>On Fri Feb 11 10:00:51 PST 2005, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Alex?= 
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>>Good Morning Dr Fraietta,
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Not Dr yet.

>>At some days ago, I had a doubt concerning writing my first 
>>device driver and you said to me to send you an email on the 10th 
>>feb. So here I am...  Could you help me, please?
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OK

>>I already study the console and serial drivers in the rtems 
>>distribution and appart from the skeletton of a generic rtems 
>>device driver, why do we have to define always a macro like this:
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>>  #define CONSOLE_DRIVER_TABLE_ENTRY \
>>   { console_initialize, console_open, console_close, \
>>     console_read, console_write, console_control }
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>>Who invoke those functions members, and in what circunstancies?
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This is my understanding of what happens. Hopefully, someone will 
correct me if I am wrong.
 The initisalise function,

console_initialize in this case, is called when the device drivers are initialised.
The Open is when you a file open on this device, the close when you do a file close, the read when do do a read from the file, the write, when you do a write to the file, and I am not sure what the control does.

I have only implemented the initialise because I write to my device direct. I have not implemented a read, or write -- I don't treat my device like a file.  I suppose that that is what you have to decide first--whether you want to treat your device like a file or whether you want to write directly from your application



>>Which are the steps to put to work a device driver made by us, 
>>or, using the hello world sample how can we put a device driver 
>>to work?
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I would have a look at an example that uses a COMM port (TTYS1) if you 
want to open and close your device like a file.

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