Serial Synthesizer Support

[Trevor Saunders]

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:51:19PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 04:51:44PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> >  This definitely would be ugly, and I don't see any reason we should go
> >  here.  I like the approach of having one module and separate
> >  configurations for each serial synthesizer.
> 
> Yeah, I don't think I will be going there.  I don't know tcl at all
> and don't wanna get tangled up with another layer of complexity like
> that.  Out of curiousity, if I write a c module to communicate with
> the serial port, should I merely write to it like I would to STDOUT?
> The only program I've recently written for the speakout to set its
> clock, writes its output to the file, /sys/accessibility/speakup/synth
> and I think speech-dispatcher modules should not be tied to speakup
> devices.  So can I just write to /dev/ttyS0 for example or should I
> use a more lower level approach?

I'd just use unix io ( open / read / write / close)

> 
> I like the advice I'm getting so far; the serial generic module idea
> sounds good to me.

agreed, if the protocol is the same, which is what people are saying it should 
work.

trev

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