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- From: davidsen@yeti.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Using 16550AFN with SCO 3.2.4
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.165723.420@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:57:23 GMT
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- In article <VU48FYS@geminix.in-berlin.de>, gemini@geminix.in-berlin.de (Uwe Doering) writes:
- | davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- |
- | >The one thing about the SCO driver is that
- | >it seems to support more types of serial device than FAS, although you
- | >have source with FAS.
- |
- | I can't really believe that SCO's driver supports more serial device
- | types. While it is true that FAS comes with config files for only
- | a few serial cards, FAS' support is in no way limited to these cards.
-
- I didn't realize that FAS worked with smart cards. I certainly will go
- back and look at the source again, but I had the impression that the
- documentation even said FAS was for dumb cards. Of course SCO supports a
- number of smart cards.
-
-
- | > Sure wish FAS run with Linux.
- |
- | Well, that's another story. While Linux tries hard to be compatible
- | with UNIX, I suspect that the driver interface in the kernel is not
- | very similar to the SysV interface. So a port to Linux would be
- | a major effort. I wish someone would prove to me that I'm wrong,
- | but I have the distinct feeling I'm not.
-
- The interface is totally different, and only some of the ideas have
- made it from FAS to the Linux drivers. Not that the drivers are all that
- bad, but the minor device stuff really mkes FAS worth using. I would
- bother with it for the difference in the speed of the current drivers
- from SCO, although the old ones were pretty grim.
-
-
- | If someone else wants to port FAS to Linux, do it. However, if
- | there are more than a few changes necessary, I won't include
- | them into FAS because I can't test them myself. The Linux port
- | would have to become an independent product with a different
- | name (the same story as with SASS for SysVr4).
-
- And an independent set of bugs...
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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