Serial Drivers

Table of Contents

Architecture
Data structures

Architecture

Since 2.6, a specialized TTY driver, serial_core, eases the development of serial drivers

See include/linux/serial_core.h for the main definitions of the serial_{core infrastructure}

Data structures

A data structure representing a driver : uart_driver

uart_register_driver() and uart_unregister_driver()

A data structure representing a port : uart_port

uart_add_one_port() and uart_remove_one_port()

A data structure containing the pointers to the operations : uart_ops

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/serial-uart/index.html http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/serial/ http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/sercons/sercons.html http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Serial-HOWTO/

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6331?page=0,1

http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/serial/serial.html

Author: Shi Shougang

Created: 2017-01-26 Thu 20:55

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