[PATCH] Documentation about RS485 serial communications

Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 10:23:44 EST 2010


On 2010-11-16, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Documentation about RS485 serial communications
>
> I have seen hardware (kontron pmc-6l) that was capable of switching
> between RS232, RS485 and one other standard by software.
>
> Is such hw common? If so, should we have standard interface?

I wouldn't say it's common, but it's not all that rare either.  I
could probably name a half-dozen companies that make serial cards that
have software selectable interface types (my employer makes quite a
few).

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