From: jeske@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (David Jeske) Subject: Re: DigiBoard to support Linux!!!! Date: 29 Sep 1993 08:11:41 GMT
greg@serveme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes:
>I guess all that nagging worked!!!!
>I just got off the phone with tech support at DigiBoard, and I
>was told they will have Linux drivers available for their products
>in about 8 weeks!!!!
Well, I decided to write a "Intelligent Board Driver" For Linux 4 days ago,
today As of today the board configuration and initilization works , as well
as input and output. No DCD/DTR ioctl calls are supported yet, but they will
be. I'm expecting to release source to the drivers as "alpha" withen 2 weeks.
These are initially going to support "Digboard PC/8i, PC/16i, PC/8e,PC/16e,
PC/8m, PC/16m" but soon after "Star Gate ACL" will be supported, as well
as Digiboard COM/xx products. Others are on the list.
I was online on IRC for 2 hours with the Driver, and it seemed to hold up
to the "non-demanding" but "constant" character stream rather well. It's
coming along nicely, and the package I'm writing is designed to allow
easy addition of different types of serial boards, and have it all be
dynamically allocated (from the minor numbers) at run time.
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