Re: first serial devSupp.

["Peregrine M. McGehee" <peregrine@lanl.gov>]

Aloha,
> > 
> > I must  write a small RS232 devSupport.
> > Is there a sample skeleton template to costruct it ?
> > or Are there any example to make it ?
> > I haven't found nothing in the my documentation, is there
> > a doc. in www ( as Gpib) ?
> > 
> > I'm using R.3.13.0beta11, MVME162, Sun Ultra, VxWorks 5.2.
> > 
> What is the nature of your RS232 device? If it is a device which responds
> to prompts, that is it does not send data asynchronously, then we may
have
> a driver that will work. The driver is drvAscii which is layered on top
> of drvSerial - written for Keck observatory by Jeff Hill of LANL. The
driver
> is in use in several other telescopes and accelerators. The driver
simplifies
> our life a lot.

And... drvSerial assumes that you have a standard vxWorks ty driver for
your serial I/O hardware - and that you create named devices within VxWorks
(for example: /dev/co, /dev/fs2, etc).

To the best of my knowledge, Keck has a driver for the Force SIO-2 VME
board. I created a driver also meant to be called from drvSerial (based on
what was in HiDEOS) for the GreenSprings Octal-232,422, and 485 IP modules.
See:
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~tcs/tcsiv/tygsoctal.html for details and links
to FTP sites. 

Also included is a simple device support layer (devNode/drvNode) that
doesn't  support prompts as drvAscii does but understands the concept of
multiple string ers (as did HiDEOS).

Peregrine M. McGehee			Project Engineer: LEDA Control System
(505) 667-3273				peregrine@lanl.gov	
LANSCE-8 Controls & Automation	Los Alamos National Laboratory