Re: [PATCH v5 2/6] serial: 8250: Support separate rs485 rx-enable GPIO

[Farouk Bouabid]

Hi,

On 26.01.24 20:58, Lino Sanfilippo wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On 26.01.24 18:27, Farouk Bouabid wrote:
> > From: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The RE signal is used to control the duplex mode of transmissions,
> > aka receiving data while sending in full duplex mode, while stopping
> > receiving data in half-duplex mode.
> >
> > On a number of boards the !RE signal is tied to ground so reception
> > is always enabled except if the UART allows disabling the receiver.
> > This can be taken advantage of to implement half-duplex mode - like
> > done on 8250_bcm2835aux.
> >
> > Another solution is to tie !RE to RTS always forcing half-duplex mode.
> >
> > And finally there is the option to control the RE signal separately,
> > like done here by introducing a new rs485-specific gpio that can be
> > set depending on the RX_DURING_TX setting in the common em485 callbacks.
> we just added the rx_during_tx_gpio to the serial core.
> Why cant you use this GPIO for your purpose?
>
> Regards,
> Lino.
What we are trying to implement is a gpio that emulates the RTS signal 
itself as we do not have a dedicated RTS signal that can be controlled 
through MCR. The rx during tx state in our case is a fixed state of 
"NO_RX_WHILE_TX"

Regards,

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