* On Fri, 26 Oct 2007, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > * On 10/26/07, Reece Dunn wrote: > > * On 25/10/2007, Juan Lang wrote: > > > > > > > Tests would also be useful here as well, so that there is not a > > > > regression. > > > > > > That's good general advice, but hard to implement without a serial > > > device to test against, which our test systems won't have. > > > > You could always skip the tests when a serial connection is not > > present. That way, you get coverage on systems that do have them. It > > should be possible to configure Virtual Machines that have serial > > ports suitable for use in these tests. ... > You can emulate a serial port, but that requires kernel-mode drivers > in at least Windows, and emulating hardware that plugs into the > emulated port isn't much easier.
Yes, but this is possible. I believe, the ideal state would be when MinGW support for compiling device drivers + Wine support for running KMD is good enough. It probably should be a separate software project, though, as it will require very specific driver coding and testing-on-Windows manpower. No?