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[Emc-developers] Hostmot2 UARTS
andy pugh
2017-07-19 17:39:36 UTC
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Does 7i93 work that was, and does LinuxCNC 2.7.10 have the capability to drive the UART now?
It has been possible to drive the UARTs for some years, but it isn't
particularly easy.

You need to write a driver using .comp that converts the required HAL
pins into bytes to be sent.

There is an example driver here:
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/hal/drivers/mesa_uart.comp
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Nicklas Karlsson
2017-07-19 17:57:26 UTC
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Post by andy pugh
It has been possible to drive the UARTs for some years, but it isn't
particularly easy.
You need to write a driver using .comp that converts the required HAL
pins into bytes to be sent.
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/blob/master/src/hal/drivers/mesa_uart.comp
I have also seen the name pkuart, it is one branch but not the other.
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