[ECOS] Serial interrupts on the AEB

[Gary Thomas]

On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:41, Gareth . wrote:
> >  you still have to enable UART interrupts by setting bits in its       >  
> >interrupt enable register. Refer to the datasheet for how to do this.
> 
> I have had a go at this. I have set the  Interrupt Enable Register for 
> UART0, UART1 and UART2. I'm not entirely sure which one is the serial line. 
> This has no effect though, my ISR function is still not called when data 
> arrives on the serial line.
> 
> I thought stuff like this would be abstracted away by ecos. Isn't that the 
> point of using an OS, to protect you from having to mess with the hardware 
> in such a way? I thought there would be an ecos function like 
> make_uart_interrupts_work(). Or is it because this is so hardware specific 
> that it is still left up to you to do manually.

There are such a set of functions - it's the serial driver :-)

> 
> Gary Thomas mentioned using the serial driver to do all this. Can anyone 
> point me at some example code to get me started?

Try looking at the serial sample code, found in .../io/serial/current/tests.  

Or, alternatively, just use standard POSIX I/O.

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