Doubt regarding drivers implementation

[0x3333]

Giovanni,

Do you consider adding the Software Serial driver to ChibiOS? Currently, I'm maintaining a fork in GitHub(https://github.com/0x3333/chibios_svn_m ... /README.md) but would be nice to have this driver upstreamed.

I'm using this driver for some time now and it works great.

Thanks.

[Giovanni]

Hi,

It looks "compliant" enough, having a more standard demo with GPT as could source would be a bonus.

Have you tested limits? what is a reasonable upper speed limit?

Another topic, do you need to have it under your copyright? if so then it should go in the community repository, I need to keep a copyright clean code base, I do re-licensing for the commercial version. Keeping the name as credits/author is not a problem.

Giovanni

[0x3333]

I have some problems calculating the tick using GPT(I couldn't calculate the multiplier correctly), but I did make it work after some struggling, I'll post an example, so it works with all compatible boards/cpus in ChibiOS.

I tested up to 115200, but the CPU got pretty busy, maybe because the multiplier was at 4, reducing to 2 would save a lot of CPU time. I'm working with 9600 with 6 instances, works great.

[0x3333]

No problem regarding the copyright, I'll change in my repo.

Edit 1: Done, changed the copyright in my repo.