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RS485 SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION EIA-485, also known as TIA/EIA-485 or RS-485, is a standard defining the electrical characteristics of drivers and receivers for use in balanced digital multipoint systems. This standard is widely used for communications in industrial automation because it can be used effectively over long distances and in electrically noisy environments. 2. HARDWARE-RELATED CONSIDERATIONS |
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Some CPUs/UARTs (e.g., Atmel AT91 or 16C950 UART) contain a built-in half-duplex mode capable of automatically controlling line direction by toggling RTS or DTR signals. That can be used to control external half-duplex hardware like an RS485 transceiver or any RS232-connected half-duplex devices like some modems. |
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For these microcontrollers, the Linux driver should be made capable of working in both modes, and proper ioctls (see later) should be made available at user-level to allow switching from one mode to the other, and vice versa. 3. DATA STRUCTURES ALREADY AVAILABLE IN THE KERNEL The Linux kernel provides the serial_rs485 structure (see [1]) to handle RS485 communications. This data structure is used to set and configure RS485 parameters in the platform data and in ioctls. |
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The device tree can also provide RS485 boot time parameters (see [2] for bindings). The driver is in charge of filling this data structure from the values given by the device tree. |
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Any driver for devices capable of working both as RS232 and RS485 should provide at least the following ioctls: - TIOCSRS485 (typically associated with number 0x542F). This ioctl is used to enable/disable RS485 mode from user-space - TIOCGRS485 (typically associated with number 0x542E). This ioctl is used to get RS485 mode from kernel-space (i.e., driver) to user-space. In other words, the serial driver should contain a code similar to the next one: static struct uart_ops atmel_pops = { /* ... */ .ioctl = handle_ioctl, }; static int handle_ioctl(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) { struct serial_rs485 rs485conf; switch (cmd) { case TIOCSRS485: if (copy_from_user(&rs485conf, (struct serial_rs485 *) arg, sizeof(rs485conf))) return -EFAULT; /* ... */ break; case TIOCGRS485: if (copy_to_user((struct serial_rs485 *) arg, ..., sizeof(rs485conf))) return -EFAULT; /* ... */ break; /* ... */ } } 4. USAGE FROM USER-LEVEL From user-level, RS485 configuration can be get/set using the previous ioctls. For instance, to set RS485 you can use the following code: #include <linux/serial.h> /* Driver-specific ioctls: */ #define TIOCGRS485 0x542E #define TIOCSRS485 0x542F /* Open your specific device (e.g., /dev/mydevice): */ int fd = open ("/dev/mydevice", O_RDWR); if (fd < 0) { /* Error handling. See errno. */ } struct serial_rs485 rs485conf; |
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/* Enable RS485 mode: */ |
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rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_ENABLED; |
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/* Set logical level for RTS pin equal to 1 when sending: */ rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND; /* or, set logical level for RTS pin equal to 0 when sending: */ rs485conf.flags &= ~(SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND); /* Set logical level for RTS pin equal to 1 after sending: */ rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND; /* or, set logical level for RTS pin equal to 0 after sending: */ rs485conf.flags &= ~(SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND); |
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/* Set rts delay before send, if needed: */ |
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rs485conf.delay_rts_before_send = ...; /* Set rts delay after send, if needed: */ |
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rs485conf.delay_rts_after_send = ...; |
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/* Set this flag if you want to receive data even whilst sending data */ rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX; |
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if (ioctl (fd, TIOCSRS485, &rs485conf) < 0) { /* Error handling. See errno. */ } /* Use read() and write() syscalls here... */ /* Close the device when finished: */ if (close (fd) < 0) { /* Error handling. See errno. */ } 5. REFERENCES [1] include/linux/serial.h |
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[2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt |