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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
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- Subject: Re: Synchronous driver for serial port on SPARC II
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.033325.19208@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 03:33:25 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.230341.9657@sparky.imd.sterling.com>
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- mac@IMD.Sterling.COM (Jeff MacDonald) writes:
-
- >We are trying to develop a synchronous device driver that will talk out the
- >ttyb serial port on a SPARC station II, running SUN OS version 4.1.2. We have
- >had limited success. The problems we run into are due to the fact that SUN's
- >asynchronous zs driver is used for other devices such as the console and the
- >mouse.
-
- >What we want to do is the following:
- >1. Synchronous comms out one serial port (not affecting the others)
- >2. Use the Z8530 chip functions to support normal BISYNC comms
- >3. We will use these functions to perform DDCMP for our appl. code
- >4. We can sacrifice (1) above, as long as keyboard & mouse still work
-
- > Has anyone ever attempted to write a synchronous driver for a SUN serial
- >port?? Any help would be appreciated. Respond by E-mail or post.
-
- If you are not bound to develop this driver yourself, I suggest you
- get Brixton's BrxBYTDVR (or BrxBITDVR for bit-synch protocols). The drivers
- cost $950 each, single license.
-
- If you want to get more info, call or write to:
-
- Brixton Systems, Inc.
- 185 Alewife Brook Parkway
- Cambridge, MA 02138
-
- Tel: (617) 661-6262
- FAX: (617) 547-9820
-
- I guess you will end up talking to Donna White. Her email address is
- white@brixton.com.
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