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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: synchronous serial port communication (16550A)
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:49:26 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3p4nm$a8m$1@news.cistron.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40600CDD.5050807@pop2wap.net>

In article <40600CDD.5050807@pop2wap.net>,
Christof  <mail@pop2wap.net> wrote:
>I have a possible problem with the 8250 serial port driver in linux (2.6.2).
>I communicate with a graphic controller with LCD-Display via ttyS0. This
>controller has a small buffer: 20 bytes. When the buffer is full it
>asserts the CTS line. When it can receive data again, the CTS line is
>cleared.
>My software checks the CTS line each time before sending a byte. If it
>is asserted, it waits until its cleared and goes on. When data is sent
>although CTS is asserted, the graphic controller will be confused and
>garbage will appear on the LCD screen.

Why don't you simply turn on hardware flow control (i.e. enable
CRTSCTS with tcsetattr() or even stty) ?

Mike.
-- 
Netu, v qba'g yvxr gur cynvagrkg :)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-23 10:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-23 10:09 Christof
2004-03-23 10:31 ` Russell King
2004-03-23 10:49 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg [this message]
     [not found] <1CRaT-Zx-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <1CRO7-1s4-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-23 11:31   ` Christof
     [not found] ` <1CRun-1dV-41@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-03-23 11:33   ` Christof
     [not found] <703905114@toto.iv>
2004-03-24  0:46 ` Peter Chubb

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