BOUNCE rtl@rtlinux.org: Approval required: (fwd)

[Der Herr Hofrat <der.herr@hofr.at>]

>From owner-rtl Mon Jul 23 17:16:43 2001
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From: "Troy Davis" <troy.davis@airbornedatasystems.com>
To: "Rtl@Rtlinux.Org" <rtl@rtlinux.org>
Subject: Porting a driver
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:16:05 -0500
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Hello all-
	I am making an attempt at porting the driver for the Comtrol Rocket port 8
port RS-422 card to real time linux.  I really do not know where to begin
though.  Does anyone have any suggestions that could point me to other
projects similar to this?  Comtrol is not using a UART so rt_com is out.
	When does rtl_spinlock need to be used?  Are there any general guidelines
to porting a driver to rtlinux?  And does anyone know if trying to get
anything close to real time out of this type of card is worth the effort?


Troy Davis
Airborne Data Systems, Inc.

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