On 8/9/2016 01:36, O. Hartmann wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 13:12:35 -0600 > Ian Lepore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 12:52 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: >>> On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Kevin Oberman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> There are several different USB serial drivers. Off-hand I see >>>> ubser, ubsa, >>>> uchcom, ucom, ucycom, uftdi, ubgensa, umcs, umct, umoscom, uplcom, >>>> usb_serial, uslcom, and uvscom. Whether any of these will support >>>> the TI >>>> chip, I can't say. Most have man pages, but a few, as has been >>>> noted, are >>>> lacking one. >>> I tried to automate discovery of these things. However, the only way >>> you can really know for sure about the TI chip is to read it's >>> datasheet >>> and compare that with extant drivers. It's actually easier than it >>> sounds. >>> >>> I've often thought of unification of the TTY USB drivers, since they >>> are >>> most (but not all) based on the standard plus extra bits. >>> >>> Warner >> To reiterate: we do not have a driver for TI 5052 chips. >> >> It's not much like other usb-serial chips. In fact it's not strictly a >> usb-serial chip, it's a multifunction chip that includes a software >> -controllable usb hub, 2 serial ports, gpio, an i2c bus master, an MCU >> interface, a multichannel DMA controller, and apparently even has the >> ability to download your own 8052-compatible microcontroller code into >> the 5052 and have it take over from the built-in rom code. >> >> It would be reasonable enough to write a driver that initially >> supported only the uart part of the chip. >> >> -- Ian > Now, that I know that I can not use any of our plenty Digi Watchport/T sensors > with FreeBSD, I'm looking for a cheap alternative of sensor, prefereably being > capable of taking temperature and humidity and being accessed as easy as a > serial terminal - as the Digi Watchport/T does with Linux. > > I still have a "resistance" changing the OS of our infrastructure to Linux due > to ZFS, but the very good support of drivers with the Linux OS is tempting ... > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
Does hardware platform matter? If not a very inexpensive alternative set is found on Adafruit's site for the Raspberry Pi and FreeBSD can easily talk to either some of the options directly or a cheap ($10) 4-channel 12-bit analog board. I am using this approach with the Pi2 as a pool controller with multiple temperature inputs and drive (through a relay board) to handle both the VFD-controlled pump motor and valves, plus spa heater. -- Karl Denninger [email protected] /The Market Ticker/
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