Virtual UART

[Thomas Doerfler]

Hi,

would a pseudotty do the job? See

https://devel.rtems.org/browser/rtems/cpukit/telnetd/pty.c

wkr,

Thomas.

Am 12.10.21 um 20:43 schrieb Morgan, Keith S:
> We have need to use an existing 3rd-party library that only knows how to talk to a UART.
> 
> Rather than try to modify the library to talk to another communication device, we would like to explore the option of creating a “virtual” software-based termios UART that implements the open,read,write,close,ioctl calls to the UART and translates those calls to the other communication device.
> 
> We found the following documentation, but it seems to be specific to console drivers: https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/bsp-howto/console.html
> 
> Can anyone point us to documentation on how to do this for a generic non-console UART?
> 
> Also, are there any examples out there you could point us to where someone has created a similar virtual UART for RTEMS?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Keith
> 
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> Keith Shearl Morgan
> ISR-3, Space Data Systems
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
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