Re: [ECOS] Naive newbie questions!

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 14:45 -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Hi!  I got curious about eCos and decided to do a couple of small projects
> in it.  My target system is a TAMS 3011.
> 
> My first question, which should give you some clue of how little I know of
> what's going on, is this:  How do I determine which version of eCos is in
> a source repository?  Everything is named "current".  Presumably it was
> current when it was shipped, but is there a version string or number anywhere?
> If so, where would I find it?

There's no version number or even string - we rely on CVS versioning and
the dates on the files.

> 
> My second question is a little more elaborate.  In a fit of insanity, I
> decided that what I really need out of an embedded system is the ability
> to play Zork.  So, I've ported frotz to eCos.  This means copying the guts
> of the Berkeley curses and termcap libraries over, hard-coding in a termcap
> entry, and running things that way.
> 
> Surprisingly, this works!
> 
> Only, it doesn't quite.  Once frotz is booted, every other character is
> dropped.  Worse, it doesn't actually get cbreak mode; regular line-mode
> processing is still in effect, such that I can edit a line using backspace,
> etcetera, and when I'm done, the edited line shows up all at once.
> 
> To clarify, the "every other character is dropped" thing happens before any
> input processing.  So, if I type "hello\n", I don't get back the line "hlo";
> I get nothing, because the "\n" was one of the characters dropped.  (The hlo
> echoes, though.)  If I type "hheelllloo\n\n", then, after the second \n is
> sent, the whole line shows up.  If I type "h e l l o \n ", same thing.
> 
> It doesn't appear that attempts to tweak terminal mode are at issue; this
> seems to happen regardless.
> 
> Any likely first things to look at?  I guess the first question is, are
> people successfully doing reads (and ideally raw reads with no line buffering)
> on this system?

Yes, absolutely :-)

What driver did you use for the serial port?
How did you configure the system?

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