[Lazarus] Using Lazarus on Embedded Linux?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bo Berglund wrote:

> But that is about it. We never ever used any of the other functionality
> of AP like the different protocols and stuff. Just the simple port.
> 
> And that is what I would like to have also with FPC/Lazarus. I could even
> live without the TCP/IP mode.
> 
> So if you have code to implement the simple serial comm system outlined
> above I'd be very interested to try that out.
> 
> My immediate application calls for communicating with a data acquisition
> device with a binary data transfer protocol, so I need all 256 byte codes
> to pass transparently through to my application. There must be no
> interception
> based on data values. Example of packet structure:
> <type><blocklength><data><crc>
> All binary of course.

On Windows, we use (an older version of) Dejan Crnila's TComPort. On 
Linux I'm currently using FPC's standard serial unit, wrapped in a 
class. In both cases I've hacked things a bit to expose a few extra 
facilities, e.g. to make sure I can get at both Ring and CD and to do 
reads with timeouts.

In my opinion most comms libraries got top-heavy with facilities to 
handle things like call control and faxing which should have been 
completely separate layers. However my interest is interfacing with 
scientific instruments etc. rather than the minutae of VT-100 emulation, 
other people might disagree. I've also got some very definite ideas on 
modem handling and have the equipment to monitor traffic, and I don't 
want anything getting in the way.

I presume you're aware of Wolfgang Erhardt's Pascal CRC code, so I won't 
mention it here :-)

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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