RTEMS 4.6.1 On-Line Library

Console Driver Introduction

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8.1: Introduction

This chapter describes the operation of a console driver using the RTEMS POSIX Termios support. Traditionally RTEMS has referred to all serial device drivers as console device drivers. A console driver can be used to do raw data processing in addition to the "normal" standard input and output device functions required of a console.

The serial driver may be called as the consequence of a C Library call such as printf or scanf or directly via the read or write system calls. There are two main functioning modes:

console: formatted input/output, with special characters (end of line, tabulations, etc.) recognition and processing,
raw: permits raw data processing.

One may think that two serial drivers are needed to handle these two types of data, but Termios permits having only one driver.

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