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high-speed Milan UART driver for FreeMiNT
=========================================
Feedback, bugreports, suggestions and any other constructive comment
is strongly recommended. Please send it as e-mail to me or the
MiNT mailinglist <mint@fishpool.com>.
Thank here to the great MiNT community.
Version 0.40
------------
- first public release
Features:
---------
- native driverrotuines for FreeMiNT, completly interrupt controlled
- minimal systemlast
- stable and constant data rates at 115200 Baud in background
- installs RSVF compatible and MiNT tty devices
- supports all filesharing and -locking mechanism
- completly supported by FreeMiNT
- no longer is HSMODEM, HSMINST or other stuff required
Installation:
-------------
1. deinstallation of HSMODEM (if installed)
- remove/rename of all HSMODEM AUTO folder programms
- remove/rename of hsminst.xdd/drvinmnt.xdd
- remove/outcomment of the HSMODEM configuration (in your MiNT.CNF)
like the following lines:
--- cut ---
# hsmodem config
sln u:\dev\hsmodem2 u:\dev\modem2
sln u:\dev\hsserial2 u:\dev\serial2
--- cut ---
2. Remove/outcomment of all MiNT.CNF entries for your tty devices
(if installed)
like the following lines:
--- cut ---
ren u:\dev\modem2 u:\dev\ttyb
ren u:\dev\serial1 u:\dev\ttyc
ren u:\dev\serial2 u:\dev\ttyd
sln u:\dev\ttyb u:\dev\modem2
sln u:\dev\ttyc u:\dev\serial1
sln u:\dev\ttyd u:\dev\serial2
--- cut ---
3. Copy uart.xdd to your MultiTOS or MiNT folder on your boot device
4. Reboot
Bugs:
-----
- the BIOS functions bcon* for the UARTs don't work after installation
of this driver; please don't use it
- there is at the moment no way to autodetect additional installed
UART ports; but this driver can handle additional ports and you can
selfcompile a version if you add the required informations to detect_uart()
if the Milan TOS provide the required infromations this problem can be
easily solved
Thanks:
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- to Rainer Mannigel for the source he originally developed for his
own BIOS and the permission to develop a serial driver
- to Michael Schwingen for the reworked source from Rainer for the
Milan TOS
Copying:
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Copyright 1999 Frank Naumann <fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Portions copyright 1998, 1999 Rainer Mannigel, Michael Schwingen.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Frank Naumann
<fnaumann@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
Magdeburg, 22.08.1999