Hardware manual

Notes re books:
"... Complete" has hardware details (including register) but the programming aspect is Window
oriented.
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"Physical Layer ..." covers much more than just RS-232.2.
22.2 Serial Software
If it's not available in your Linux distribution try:
Serial Software for Linux software for the serial ports including getty and port monitors.
Serial Communications for communication programs.
irqtune will give serial port interrupts higher priority to improve performance. Using hdparm for
hard-disk tuning may help some more.
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modemstat and statserial show the current state of various modem control lines. See Serial
Monitoring/Diagnostics
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22.3 Related Linux Documents
man pages for: setserial and stty•
Low-Level Terminal Interface part of "GNU C Library Reference manual" (in libc (or glibc) docs
package). It covers the detailed meaning of "stty" commands, etc.
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Modem-HOWTO: modems on the serial port•
PPP-HOWTO: help with PPP (using a modem on the serial port)•
Printing-HOWTO: for setting up a serial printer•
Serial-Programming-HOWTO: for some aspects of serial-port programming•
Text-Terminal-HOWTO: how they work and how to install and configure•
UPS-HOWTO: setting up UPS sensors connected to your serial port•
UUCP-HOWTO: for information on setting up UUCP•
22.4 Serial Mailing List
The Linux serial mailing list. To join, send email to [e-mail], with
``subscribe linux-serial'' in the message body. If you send ``help'' in the message body, you get a
help message. The server also serves many other Linux lists. Send the ``lists'' command for a list of
mailing lists.
22.5 Internet
Serial port - Wikipedia•
Linux Serial Driver home page Includes info about PCI support.•
Serial-Programming-HOWTO (not yet available from the Linux Documentation Project). It's now on
my website: http://www.lafn.org/~dave/linux/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.txt See also:
Serial-Programming-HOWTO by Peter Baumann
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Terminal IO by Vern Hoxie Termios man page revision by Vern Hoxie•
A white paper discussing serial communications and multiport serial boards was available from
Cyclades at http://www.cyclades.com.
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Serial and UART Tutorial (FreeBSD)•
Serial HOWTO
22.1 Books 79