Serial Support
Message Passing Facility

Release Notes

19AUG2003

Release 1-5

OctalUART now connects to interrupts BEFORE initializing.

devStringMpf: 1) Calls bind after constructing new device support, 2) Calls dbTranslateEscape to put value into message.

serialServer::initSerialServer 1) Checks that eomstr is < 80 characters, 2) Calls dbTranslateEscape for eomstr.

serialPortSniff: 1) Improved output, 2) Larger stacksize.

Release 1-4

The Error message from the interrupt handler for OctalUART now shows the status byte.

The stack size for the serialServer has been increased.

This is the first release of MPF serial support available via an open source license.

Release 1-3

Timeouts may now be specified as an int or as a double. This allows fractions of a second.

The interrupt routine was again modified. It has been tested on an mv162 with both 1 and 2 interrupt levels specified. It has also been tested with a VIPC616-01 Carrier board. The later was tested with an mv162 and with a mvme761 powerPC.

The following changes were made to serialPortShiff: 1) The ringBudSize was made equal to a multiple of the size of the structure that holds each information for each byte. 2) Previously serialPortShiff would never stop if it always found something in the ring buffer; This is fixed.

Release 1-2

The interrupt routine was modified so that it works correctly when the IP modules uses separate interrupts for read and write.

The config files were changed to use the base 3.13.3 rules. It now builds properly for 3.13.3 as well as previous releases of base.

Release 1-1

This is the first release of the unbundled version of the serial support.