Re: off topic - Assembler using GCC
Helge Hafting:
> Linux has device drivers doing this for you already! No problem! The
> device drivers handles irq's, io-addresses and buffering. A linux
> program simply open a serial device as if it were a file and reads from
> it and writes to it using normal stuff like fread(), fwrite(), fprintf()
> etc.
I don't need it, but just out of curiosity, is there a more low-level
interface available? Or would one have to write a kernel module?
I'm thinking, if you need to do non-standard things with the control lines
(say for a dongle).
Jiri
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