From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Oct 11 00:25:10 2005 X-Original-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Delivered-To: fnaumann@mail.boerde.de Subject: Re: [MiNT] ioctl.h From: Mark Duckworth To: Evan Langlois Cc: Mint List In-Reply-To: <1128977142.12010.23.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> References: <001778d5.01c15c7e17a8@smtp.freeola.net> <1128977142.12010.23.camel@taro.coolrunningconcepts.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:18:29 -0400 Message-Id: <1128982709.11492.10.camel@mduckworth.phillypark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.1.fc4.nr) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-To: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.com Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:45 -0500, Evan Langlois wrote: > TIOCMGET retrieves the status of serial port signals, and TIOCMSET will > set them, such as DTR and RTS. MiNT has the first (but only a hack - > may not work on anything but the first serial port) as part of > Ssystem(), but not the second at all. > > > Is there much I can do about this ? > > I don't think so. I don't believe mint supports these itself. You'd > likely have to replace the call with something Atari specific. The > situation looks grim as far as getting instant access to the state of > the serial control signals. Just hacking the source to your app as a > work-around and faking whatever its trying to do signal-wise may be > easier. Supporting this properly looks like it would require changing > the drivers to actually query the hardware registers for the > information, adding an OS calls to get it, adding a mintlib function to > call the OS, etc. You can just plugin HSModem calls into the source. It'll require some mild hacking though. Thanks, Mark