[ECOS] How to add extra serial ports

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 12:50:26PM -0300, Eduardo Sabaj wrote:
>
> I'm working on an i386 architecture that has more than 2 serial ports 
> available, and what I would like to know is how I can make use of them. The 
> configtool program shows only the information about serial port 0 and 1 but 
> doesn't let me add another serial port. Moreoever, I found the 
> CYGNUM_HAL_VIRTUAL_VECTOR_COMM_CHANNELS macro (number of communication 
> channels on board) but it has a limit of 3 channels and I can't change it.

Take a look at
packages/devs/serial/i386/pc/current/include/i386_pc_ser.inl. You need
to add CYGPKG_IO_SERIAL_I386_PC_SERIAL2 and 3 and modify the CDL
appropriately.

        Andrew

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