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Add non-variable packet READ option
It is clear that variable packets are inconvenient on high speed bitbanger
implementations of the lwwire protocol. This update provides an alternative
to the variable length READ option that does not require the use of variable
length packets.
author | William Astle <lost@l-w.ca> |
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date | Sat, 11 Jun 2016 11:13:49 -0600 |
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1 The docs/ folder contains protocol documentation for lwwire. |
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3 The src/ folder contains a reference protocol implementation. This is NOT |
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4 intended for casual users. It is meant to serve as an illustration of how |
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5 the protocol can be implemented and serves as a means to test features. The |
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6 reference implementation does not contain a fancy GUI, configuration file |
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7 handler, or even serial or TCP port handling. It simply operates the |
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8 protocol on stdin and stdout and prints diagnostics to stderr. A tool like |
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9 socat can be used to link it to a TCP port. Similar tools might be used to |
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10 link it to a serial port. |