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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
==================================
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.
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.
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.
Any driver for devices capable of working both as RS232 and RS485 should
implement the rs485_config callback and provide rs485_supported in the
uart_port structure. The serial core calls rs485_config to do the device
specific part in response to TIOCSRS485 ioctl (see below). The rs485_config
callback receives a pointer to a sanitizated serial_rs485 structure. The
serial_rs485 userspace provides is sanitized before calling rs485_config
using rs485_supported that indicates what RS485 features the driver supports
for the uart_port. TIOCGRS485 ioctl can be used to read back the
serial_rs485 structure matching to the current configuration.
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>
/* Include definition for RS485 ioctls: TIOCGRS485 and TIOCSRS485 */
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
/* 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;
/* Enable RS485 mode: */
rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_ENABLED;
/* 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);
/* Set rts delay before send, if needed: */
rs485conf.delay_rts_before_send = ...;
/* Set rts delay after send, if needed: */
rs485conf.delay_rts_after_send = ...;
/* Set this flag if you want to receive data even while sending data */
rs485conf.flags |= SER_RS485_RX_DURING_TX;
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. Multipoint Addressing
========================
The Linux kernel provides addressing mode for multipoint RS-485 serial
communications line. The addressing mode is enabled with SER_RS485_ADDRB
flag in serial_rs485. Struct serial_rs485 has two additional flags and
fields for enabling receive and destination addresses.
Address mode flags:
- SER_RS485_ADDRB: Enabled addressing mode (sets also ADDRB in termios).
- SER_RS485_ADDR_RECV: Receive (filter) address enabled.
- SER_RS485_ADDR_DEST: Set destination address.
Address fields (enabled with corresponding SER_RS485_ADDR_* flag):
- addr_recv: Receive address.
- addr_dest: Destination address.
Once a receive address is set, the communication can occur only with the
particular device and other peers are filtered out. It is left up to the
receiver side to enforce the filtering. Receive address will be cleared
if SER_RS485_ADDR_RECV is not set.
Note: not all devices supporting RS485 support multipoint addressing.
6. References
=============
[1] include/uapi/linux/serial.h
[2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
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