[Coco] os9/drivewire driver: success!

Boisy G. Pitre boisy at tee-boy.com
Sun Nov 8 20:54:11 EST 2009


On Nov 8, 2009, at 7:46 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:

> I am super pleased to report, despite many remaining issues, I now
> have a working terminal over the drivewire.  So a single cable is
> proving disk, clock, print *and* a terminal on T2!  Drivewire is so
> nice.  Now I need to flesh out the driver, its very incomplete, but
> the concept works.  I am so excited :)
>
> I had things sort of working all along, I just didn't understand that
> Read is supposed to sleep until it can get a byte.  I was returning
> when I had nothing, causing the problems I mentioned in earlier posts.

Of course... V.BUSY/V.WAKE.  It's amazing what you forget when you  
haven't stuck your head into something for a while.

> Here is an example of things working now (note process 3, this is the
> [...]
> OS9:

You rock, man!  Great work!

What's your next step?

Boisy





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