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RickCHodgin

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2017, 05:07:47 pm »
Use pscom.sys on ArcaOS

No matter what I've tried, I can't get it to work above 9600,8N1.  In cases where I use 115200, it returns 87 invalid parameter.  Not sure what to do there.
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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2017, 01:29:36 am »
According to the docs, you can use DosDeviIOCtrl() to set the serial port to 19200 for a standard serial port or up to 57600 bps for an enhanced serial port using ASYNC_BAUDRATE (41h) and then there is ASYNC_EXTBAUDRATE(43h) which says it is for higher then 19200.
See DosDevIOCTL() in control programing 1 (cp1.inf) and Generic IOCTL Commands in control programming 2 (cp2.inf)

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2017, 03:33:26 am »
According to the docs, you can use DosDeviIOCtrl() to set the serial port to 19200 for a standard serial port or up to 57600 bps for an enhanced serial port using ASYNC_BAUDRATE (41h) and then there is ASYNC_EXTBAUDRATE(43h) which says it is for higher then 19200.
See DosDevIOCTL() in control programing 1 (cp1.inf) and Generic IOCTL Commands in control programming 2 (cp2.inf)

Maybe it's the parameter size.  115200 requires more than 16 bits, but 57600 and lower values fit in 16 bits.
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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2017, 04:13:55 am »
For ASYNCEXTSETBAUDRATE, to quote the documentation.
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This function sets the bit rate in doublewords to cover bit rates higher than 19200 bps.
and uses a DWORD

RickCHodgin

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #19 on: November 08, 2017, 11:53:53 am »
For ASYNCEXTSETBAUDRATE, to quote the documentation.
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This function sets the bit rate in doublewords to cover bit rates higher than 19200 bps.
and uses a DWORD

That's it.  I was using ASYNC_SETBAUDRATE.  It probably only uses a WORD.

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #20 on: November 08, 2017, 01:22:46 pm »
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That's it.  I was using ASYNC_SETBAUDRATE.  It probably only uses a WORD.
Have you never wondered why I've posted two examples above?

RickCHodgin

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #21 on: November 08, 2017, 04:35:01 pm »
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That's it.  I was using ASYNC_SETBAUDRATE.  It probably only uses a WORD.
Have you never wondered why I've posted two examples above?

Yes.  Since both require a sizeof() parameter indicating how big the input parameter block is, I figured they would adapt to the input size based on that parameter.  My mistake.  ASYNC_SETBAUDRATE appears to only support 16-bit inputs regardless of the sizeof() parameter.

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #22 on: November 28, 2017, 06:28:47 pm »
REALLY stupid question (there are such things):

What is ES/2?

*covering head, ducking*

RickCHodgin

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Re: ES/2 development
« Reply #23 on: November 28, 2017, 06:47:54 pm »
What is ES/2?

It doesn't exist yet.  It's planned to be a new, from scratch, open source kernel for OS/2.  Later it will expand to include its own drivers and everything else making it a truly open source OS/2.

The goal is it will be similar to what GNU did for UNIX, but GNU did it backwards.  They wrote all of the drivers and support programs, and started on the kernel last (in the early 1990s).  They still don't have their kernel completed, and used the Linux kernel instead.

ES/2 plans to make the kernel first, then write all of the drivers and support programs.

We'll see though.  Lots of work to do.