[ECOS] semi-blocking serial read

[Jonathan Larmour]

David Airlie wrote:
> 
> I thought about doing this before.. and never got around to it .. god this
> would save me a lot of extra crap I've added to my code .. loads of tslp
> and stuff waiting for data...
> 
> I might go code up a patch for this in the next couple of weeks, when I
> get the chance to sit down with my eCos devel system.. that is unless
> someone beats me to it ...

If you do, it would be nice if it was overall controlled by a separate CDL
option, like the non-blocking stuff. After all, it's only useful on systems
that do receive stuff in chunks.

Jifl
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