RS-232 driver for GPIO

Aleksandr Rybalko ray at freebsd.org
Tue May 14 23:18:12 UTC 2013


On Tue, 14 May 2013 12:20:08 -0600
Tom Everett <tom at khubla.com> wrote:

> ok so the FDT definition would have to be added here?
> 
> http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/boot/fdt/dts/bcm2835-rpi-b.dts?view=markup
> 

Yeah, right.

But I have bad news. Both UARTs can be connected to pairs(tx+rx) 14+16,
32+33, 40+41 and both UARTs can be connected to any of this pins.
But only 14, 16 and 40(PWM0) wired to ext.pin.

> 
> 
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at freebsd.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 14 May 2013 09:06:44 -0700
> > Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > > ... the r-pi actually has an RS232 port exposed via GPIO. It's
> > > only 3.3v but it's there.
> > >
> > > Someone just needs to write up an SIO driver for it and then put
> > > the GPIO pins in question into RS232 "mode".
> >
> > we have it already :) (console works on uart)
> > only FDT definition is required.
> > And maybe some fixes for boudrate setting and/or format setup
> > (bits/parity/stop bits/etc)
> >
> > >
> > > Yay multi-function GPIO pins!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > adrian
> > >
> > >
> > > On 14 May 2013 08:58, Tom Everett <tom at khubla.com> wrote:
> > > > Good morning ARM mailing list.
> > > >
> > > > I've been running FreeBSD on my Pi, and I've now got two XBee
> > > > Pros which I hope to connect.  XBee's communicate over RS-232.
> > > >
> > > > https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8742
> > > >
> > > > I see from the source tree that it was possible to attach the
> > > > iic driver to GPIO pins in software:
> > > >
> > > > http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/dev/gpio/gpioiic.c?view=markup
> > > >
> > > > I'm wondering, it is possible to connect the FreeBSD serial
> > > > driver for RS-2332 to GPIO in a similar way to how iic was
> > > > connected?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> 
> 
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