Kevin Crowe wrote: >> At one point, I started working on a "GSD" (generic serial driver, >> > > I cast my vote for GSD...but since I'm not doing the work it's a rather > meaningless vote. > > Having had to maintain code in and around (and maybe adding some of) > the cruft in se & su over the years and peeking at zs and asy on > occasion I can only imagine how much easier serial driver maintenance > would become...and adding support for a new chip would (should?) be > a breeze! Just add a few chip specific functions and most of those > would be small I'd guess. > > But I'm not a developer and I've never used GLD so for experience in > this area I have none so.... > >
Let me think about it. If I do a GSD, then I still want a common UART (16550) module. But maybe there is something to the idea of some more common code. Once concern I have is that I know _nothing_ about the synchronous serial support in Solaris, or synchronous serial communication in general. -- Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division, General Dynamics C4 Systems http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/ Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
