Messages in this thread | | | From | David Brownell <> | Subject | Re: Real time USB2Serial devices and behaivor | Date | Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:48:40 -0700 |
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On Wednesday 26 March 2008, mark gross wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:27:28AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Give up and use a "real" serial port, you'll have better luck :) > > but its getting very hard to find real serial ports any more :(
I happened across this the other day, and saved the URL since the price was relatively sane ... $15 vs the $60 I saw at another site, although ISTR Fry's used to have them at $5:
http://www.wrighthobbies.net/catalog/index.php?cPath=47
Yeah, I know. "It's getting very hard to find real PCI slots any more." :(
It seems like some companies (notably *cough* Intel) are on a little jihad to get rid of serial ports...
I'd think that in a controlled environment (fixed set of USB connections) USB should be able to meet fairly chosen "real time" latency ceilings. The stack probably needs a few semantic updates to make it happen -- e.g. URB completions are issued in_irq() -- but it shouldn't be insurmountable.
- Dave
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