Any users of the Termios receive/send callbacks?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 21/03/17 00:57, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 20/03/2017 20:47, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 20/03/17 10:38, Pavel Pisa wrote:
>>> Hello Sebastian,
>>>
>>> On Thursday 23 of February 2017 07:51:13 Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> >Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> >the RTEMS Termios implementation provides receive and send callbacks:
>>>> >
>>>> >https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/libcsupport/include/rtems/termiosty 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >pes.h#n41
>>>> >
>>>> >There is no API to install these callbacks. They are not used in the
>>>> >RTEMS code base. Is there someone how uses this stuff? I would 
>>>> like to
>>>> >change the invocation conditions to use them for the poll(), select()
>>>> >and kqueue() support.
>>> it would be great. Would it work with bare RTEMS or libbsd
>>> would be required? If it can be used without libbsd
>>> on memory constrained systems then it would be great.
>>
>> I already checked in the poll() and select() support for Termios in
>> libbsd. The poll() and select() functions are a part of libbsd. They use
>> the sleep/wakeup support of BSD which in turn uses a hash table of sleep
>> queues. This is indeed a problem for memory constrained systems. I think
>> with some work it might be possible to provide a low memory footprint
>> configuration of libbsd, however, I don't have time/budget for this.
>>
>> There are some fundamental problems with the RTEMS Termios
>> implementation to fully support POSIX Termios, e.g. input processing is
>> mostly done by the reading task (e.g. echo). One option is to use the
>> Termios support of FreeBSD with the low level drivers of RTEMS to fix 
>> this.
>>
>
> I am a little confused by this and what we are attempting to do here.

I don't attempt anything to do. I just wanted to share some issues we 
found while porting the Erlang virtual machine to RTEMS.

>
> Why would someone want 'select' or 'poll' on a memory constrained 
> system? I understand in the context of libbsd it allows us to bring 
> existing code onto a board. Is this also a requirement for memory 
> constrained systems?

What is memory constrained? It would be nice to use libbsd with lets say 
1-2MiB of RAM.

>
> The other aspect is how we document and explain "Termios for RTEMS" if 
> we have two differing implementations where code may not be portable 
> between a libbsd build and a non-libbsd build, ie legacy networking? 
> For example I have a large project that can can be built with the 
> legacy and libbsd networking stacks. If the libbsd termios is a better 
> implementation then I see no problem but it is not clear to me if this 
> is the case.

I don't want to think of Termios at the moment since this causes nightmares.

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