In message <9909061532290g.69...@gurney.reilly.home> Andrew Reilly writes: : So there's going to be manufacturer-specific terminal/serial port drivers : to talk to the serial ports on USB-attached laptop docking stations, like : the Annex ethernet terminal server things? I guess in the Windows world : they must provide 16550-virtualisation software, or else everyone's copy of : Telix or TeraTerm won't work. Or the parallel ports vs parallel-port : scanners. Or maybe these docking stations just won't work at all...
No. The Windows world presents a standard SERIAL DRIVER interface, at least that's the theory that is preached. I see no reason why a USB serial port wouldn't do the same. USB defines a serial port interface, IIRC, which is the same across manufacturers (in theory) which would be handled by a single USB driver in our USB stack. Likewise with parallel ports. Although turning a USB parallel port into a bit twiddling interface may present some interesting challanges. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
