[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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