Re: [ros-dev] Short announce: My Serial port-on-MMIO implementation works - allowing debug logging on laptops

[Minas Abrahamyan]

Aleksey> that's just great!
I am convinced in that!)

>   Do you mind including that to trunk? 
Surely. For that I was doing it.
Now yet some work is needed to be done on it, and then I will submit a patch


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Hermès BÉLUSCA - MAÏTO <
hermes.belusca(a)sfr.fr&gt; wrote:

>   Maybe it can go along cportlib :)
>  
It fact the code is already in there, ..I mean in my local directory :)


-Minas


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> Hermès.
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> *De :* Ros-dev [mailto:[e-mail]] *De la part de*Aleksey Bragin
> *Envoyé :* dimanche 6 avril 2014 22:16
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> *Objet :* Re: [ros-dev] Short announce: My Serial port-on-MMIO
> implementation works - allowing debug logging on laptops
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> Minas,
> that's just great!
>
>   Do you mind including that to trunk? 
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> Regards,
> Aleksey Bragin
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> On 06.04.2014 22:37, Minas Abrahamyan wrote:
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> Hi all,
>
> With this few words I would like to share the joyous event of MMIO-based
> serial port implementation
>
> has finally worked for me.
>
>
> This is the equivalent of earlycon serial port implementation in Linux
> with some extension
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> (so now it is even better then Linux one)
>
> Some work yet is needed to be done to transform the work into the normal
> patch, but the good news is
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> it is working, and still doesn't require PNPmanager for work, i.e. it
> starts very early in kernel and writes kernel log messages.
>
> I use ExpressCard 34 extension board Serial RS232 port, on laptop,
> but think it will work fro PC Cards too (former name PCMCIA).
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>
> ==Importance: Touching the hardware==
>
> For the more developers we need more working PC models ( Real Hardware)
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> Almost all modern PCs are laptops with PCIe bus (the rest are desktops)
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> (but few of them able to boot the ReactOS)
>
> Modern serial ports are recommended to use /often use MMIO-based data
> transfer instead of former I/O ports.
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>
> So now possibility appears to debug these new computers and force the
> ReactOS to work on this important part of new PCs.
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> Thanks for attention
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> -Minas Abrahamyan
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>
> PS Curious note: for catching the debug logs I use the (small and cheap)
> soap box-sized microcontroller board with LCD (ready-unit), and I call it
> "ReactOS debug logger" appliance. It doesn't take space and doesn't
produce
> any noise
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