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From: David Bacon <bacon@eecs.lehigh.edu>
Subject: Re: inb/outb for GNAT (Linux) ??
Date: 1998/01/27
Date: 1998-01-27T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34CE1BC3.156DA6B9@eecs.lehigh.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6al3th$ptb$1@muller.loria.fr


Nicolas NAVET wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>  I'am using GNAT for Linux. I need to write
>  data to a serial port. Is it possible to do that with ADA
>  without using a device driver ?
>  I' have searched through the packages for functions like
>  inb()/outb() but without result.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nicolas Navet

You are looking in the wrong place, and my answer is necessarily
not Ada-specific:

In Linux, the serial ports can be opened and written to in much
the same way as regular files.  They are usually named /dev/cua0,
/dev/cua1, etc.  For low-level operations (such as manipulating
the DTR bit), you may find direct-access operations on /dev/port
useful also (try "man port" on Slackware or RedHat Linux).

     dB




  reply	other threads:[~1998-01-27  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-01-27  0:00 inb/outb for GNAT (Linux) ?? Nicolas NAVET
1998-01-27  0:00 ` David Bacon [this message]
1998-01-28  0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-01-28  0:00   ` Corey Minyard
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