[Coco] os9/drivewire driver: success!

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:55 PM, John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 04:50:18PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> > On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:53:47PM -0500, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
>> >> I think a PTY is a great idea.   Doing the terminal support in a
>> >> proper terminal program like minicom makes more sense than writing
>> >> my own client.  My only concern is that im not sure if Windows users
>> >> will be left out in the cold, but that doesnt bother me too much tbh.
>> >> Mac os x should support pty with a little wrangling.
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure OSX has at least some version of PTY support.
>> > I Googled a bit for win32 APIs (of which I am blissfully ignorant)
>> > but didn't find anything specific.  However, there seem to be some
>> > implementations out ther -- maybe cygwin or uwin or something would
>> > support it?
>> >
>> >> If you have anything in c that does a pty, i'd love to see the code.
>> >> I'm much more comfortable in c than in os9 assembler, but no need to
>> >> duplicate work if i don't have to.
>> >
>> > I'll attach the source for the MESS code I use.  It seems reasonably
>> > clear, but feel free to ask questions if you haven't MESSed your
>> > brain yet. :-)
>>
>> Thanks, looks like it will work with just a little tweaking,
>> definitely save me some time.
>> I will probably get something put together tonight.
>>
>> If you'd like, I can send boot disks/source/binaries etc or put them somewhere.
>
> Sounds great -- I'd love to see them!
>

Ok, PTY is working and it's much nicer than the old stdin/stdout
version.  I am now using an OS9 shell in Minicom on my linux box, with
the Coco booted and accessing disks over the same serial cable at the
same time.. the bit banger must be hating life :)

I made a web page with notes and files if anyone wants to play with
it, or better yet help find/correct my many mistakes and bad designs.
I think it should have everything needed:

http://www.aaronwolfe.com/coco/

It's very close to usable, but if you're just interested in having it
work then probably want to wait another week or so and I'll have it
much better polished.

-Aaron



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