A short update on the RS-485 network project ... I ordered up an assortment of RS-485 "hats" and USB serial ports to play with. I also have an Axxon LF1006KB PCIe card that will go into the CPU server as the "gateway" for the 485 network. It should already work with the uartpci driver, but I'll have to extend that to add support for the 485-specific card functions. Fortunately Axxon has been very forthcoming with documentation for the card, so this should be pretty straight forward.
I decided to take this week off work so I could free up some cycles to get myself orgainized enough to start on this ;-) I need a week just to dig out from under the mess that my apartment has become during lockdown! Mostly I need to (re-)construct a proper Plan 9 environment to base all of this on, so most of this week is dedicated to building CPU and file servers, etc. But just maybe, by the weekend, I'll have a couple of Plan 9 devices chatting over the RS-485 link. --lyndon ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta4e584a373b05553-M6753c1dbc56119369a0cc01a Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
