Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I would start by looking at the vxWorks/src/drv/serial/cd2400Serial.c file
that comes with the vxWorks distribution.  Just hack it up and you have a
vx(sometimes)Works serial driver that you can access by opening something 
like /dev/myserial1 or what ever.  Look at the _vxWorks_ docs on drivers
(especially the tyCoDrv driver docs that outline the cd2400Serial.c file)
and the cd2400Serial.c file and you should have NO problems getting your
current paradigm ported.

Since it is all software and it won't actually wait to get the I/O finished (I
assume you are just pokeing around VME space and not waiting or spinning in the
driver?), I would write a regular (as in NOT async) device support that 
write()'s your command string/data out the serial driver and does a blocking 
read on its response (which will already be queued and ready.)

--John

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