On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:12:35 -0600 Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 12:52 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Kevin Oberman <rkober...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > There are several different USB serial drivers. Off-hand I see > > > ubser, ubsa, > > > uchcom, ucom, ucycom, uftdi, ubgensa, umcs, umct, umoscom, uplcom, > > > usb_serial, uslcom, and uvscom. Whether any of these will support > > > the TI > > > chip, I can't say. Most have man pages, but a few, as has been > > > noted, are > > > lacking one. > > > > I tried to automate discovery of these things. However, the only way > > you can really know for sure about the TI chip is to read it's > > datasheet > > and compare that with extant drivers. It's actually easier than it > > sounds. > > > > I've often thought of unification of the TTY USB drivers, since they > > are > > most (but not all) based on the standard plus extra bits. > > > > Warner > > To reiterate: we do not have a driver for TI 5052 chips. > > It's not much like other usb-serial chips. In fact it's not strictly a > usb-serial chip, it's a multifunction chip that includes a software > -controllable usb hub, 2 serial ports, gpio, an i2c bus master, an MCU > interface, a multichannel DMA controller, and apparently even has the > ability to download your own 8052-compatible microcontroller code into > the 5052 and have it take over from the built-in rom code. > > It would be reasonable enough to write a driver that initially > supported only the uart part of the chip. > > -- Ian Now, that I know that I can not use any of our plenty Digi Watchport/T sensors with FreeBSD, I'm looking for a cheap alternative of sensor, prefereably being capable of taking temperature and humidity and being accessed as easy as a serial terminal - as the Digi Watchport/T does with Linux. I still have a "resistance" changing the OS of our infrastructure to Linux due to ZFS, but the very good support of drivers with the Linux OS is tempting ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
