On 03/16/2014 03:45 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
Paul Breneman wrote:
My main specialty is communication software (
www.turbocontrol.com/APro.htm ), so right now that is what I'm working
on. I have a USB hub working with a keyboard on my Nexus 7 (via OTG),
but a FTDI USB-serial adapter doesn't show up in /dev so I hope to get
that (and some other Bluetooth and TCP/IP stuff) working next.
I've not got a Nexus but I suggest looking to see whether whoever's made
the adapter (using the FTDI chip) has given it a vid:pid that the OS
doesn't recognise. I think that fiddling with kernel module parameters
or editing the identifier info into a config file are beyond what the
average user can be expected to do.
But a GUI Hello World would be nice! I did install the "libc-dev"
package to compile a Synapse Synaser program so if anyone wants to try
www.CtrlTerm.com that would be appreciated.
Some patches for serial.pp were recently applied to 2.7.1. This is for
low-level access and requires that you do the thread handling yourself,
but doesn't require libc etc. It was tested on ARM Linux when written.
My main (first) goal in this is to be able to run a single program
(for machine control) on an inexpensive tablet. Maybe even with
embedded Firebird (I have an Android tablet with an Intel CPU if that
is needed).
The USB-serial adapter works everywhere else so I think it is fine. I'm
guessing that GNURoot may prevent any communication? I need to do more
testing.
About 7 years ago seeing you participating was what convinced me that
Free Pascal was worth trying on embedded systems, so thanks for your
help (again) Mark! :)
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