YModem with I2C - linux

I'm currently in a situation that my SoC will be connected via its I2C bus through a I2C-to-UART converter MAX3107 to the UART port of a microprocessor.
Although the communication between the two shouldn't be an issue, the part were the Soc should update the firmware of the microprocessor has to be done with the Y-Modem file transfer protocol.
Although a question is pending at the manufacturer, I still wanted to check here:
Would this even be possible
The SoC runs Linux, is this depending on the MAX3107 driver
Does this concern the I2C bus or is only the UART driver and bus interesting.
https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/MAX3107.pdf

I used the SC16IS750 instead with the Linux kernel driver.
Sending a file via Y-Modem doesn't seem to be a problem. I tried both Minicom and TeraTerm to send a file and it works. The receiver responds is just 1 character each time before sending a part of the file. If the responds would have been more than 64-byte at a time (instead of the one character) this would have been a problem, because the FIFO first needs to be read and cleared before another sting can be received.

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C++ Detecting USB serial device plugged/unplugged

I need to detect when a USB serial device is plugged or unplugged on my embedded system and know what is the tty associated with it.
My system runs over a 2.6 Linux Kernel.
Since I don't have write access to udev rules, nowadays I'm trying to get this information from the file system, looking for modifications in /sys/bus/usb/devices directory. However, I'm facing some problems with this approach.
I know what is the Id BUS of the USB port connected (e.g 1-1.3). So, I search for the associated tty (looking for a directory in /sys/bus/usb/devices/<Id BUS>:1.0/tty/ - e.g. /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1.3:1.0/tty/ttyACM0). This way I know that I should use /dev/ttyACM0 to communicate with my device.
But, sometimes, this device (/dev/ttyACM0) does not exist.
Is there any better way to get this information?
I even thought trying to get this information from the syslog, but I don't know whether this is a pretty good idea.
Edit:
Only to clarify, my system needs to be able to detect state changes in the USB bus, i.e. detecting when a new device is plugged (and getting the tty name linked to it) or an existing one is unplugged.
The system is monitoring up to N USB/serial devices, which are plugged to it using an USB HUB. During its normal execution new devices can be plugged, existing devices can be removed (or rebooted by a remote command - out of this scope). When a device is rebooted, it could receive a different tty from the previous one used before (e.g. ttyACM0 -> ttyACM3), since the kernel designates to it a tty which is free at the moment, and it is a big problem to me.
Netlink is the preferred mechanism for communication between kernel and userspace.
You would create a Netlink socket with family NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT, listen on that socket and filter out messages that contain SUBSYSTEM=usb and ACTION=add for USB plug events or ACTION=remove for USB unplug events.
I wrote a USB abstraction library called libusbp. You should look at its port_name example, which shows how to use libusbp to get the serial port name (e.g. /dev/ttyACM0) for a USB serial device. Behind the scenes, libusbp gets this information using libudev.
Check if the virtual file is deleted using stat.
#include <sys/statvfs.h>
...
struct stat sb;
return (stat("/dev/ttyUSB0", &sb) == 0); // true if open, false otherwise

What happens if I write to eth0 or ath0?

Recently I encountered several questions on SO regarding working with sockets on a very low level. Here's an example. While looking for an answer, I realised that sockets have relatively low capabilities on OSI Level 2. On Linux, we can specify a protocol when creating a socket, but obviously not all Level 2 protocols are present in the list.
While it is possible to assemble and send an ethernet frame, it's (presumably) not possible to send a 802.11 packet - though it looks like wifi device drivers do convert ethernet frames to wifi packets and vice versa.
This made me wonder, if there are more possibilities in reading and writing directly to device files like eht0, ath0? Is it a socket implementation who usually writes to these files, or a device driver? And who's on receiving side - a NIC driver, a peripheral bus controller?

How to detect when a usb cable is connected/disconnected on the device side in Linux 2.6.37?

I have a embedded device that runs linux 2.6.37.
I want my application to know when the USB is connected.
Currently I can achieve this by pooling
/sys/devices/platform/musb/musb-hdrc.0/vbus.
However this approach does not distinguish between a USB charger or a USB host.
I found this udev approach but I don't think it's available in my version of the kernel. because I did not find any USB related nodes in my /dev. This discussing also shows that it might not be feasible, ether.
I also found linux hotplug and tried the netlink example, but I didn't see any output running the example when I connect/disconnect the USB cable.
What I want to do is to detect connection type on the device, when USB is connected, and prepare (unmount file system) and switch to g_file_storage if device is connected to a host, and do nothing if device is connect to a charger.
How shall I achieve this?
To achieve that, you can use the inotify(7) feature, available in all linux kernels to be awaken as soon as some device node gets created in /sys.
To know what type of device you have, you have to read the usb info from proper usb ioctl call (or if you are not a kernel interface expert, using the libusb interface) to get the device vendor, device id and device class fields coming from the device. Normally, the hotplug software gets informed on these clase of events (via a special socket). The most probably reason you don't get the device properly initialized is some misconfiguration in the config files for udev system, which normally has one entry for each possible device vendor/device id pair and allows it to load the appropiate device driver to control it. The process continues with the device driver module creating dynamically the actual devices, and they'll appear in the /dev/ filesystem as a consequence of some other kernel event to udevd.
Read apropiate documents in <linux_src>/Documentation (this directory directory belongs to the linux kernel source code, so you'll probably need to install it), and udevd(8) man pages to be able to add a new usb.
On 2.6.37 kernel, this could be done by polling
/sys/devices/platform/musb-omap2430.0/musb-hdrc.0/mode
If handshake with host is successful then it will read as "peripheral", if fail it'll be "idle".

Blocking I/O Write Operation on UART Serial Port in Linux

I am trying to communicate with a device over a RS-485 half duplex serial line. When I send a command to the device, it processes the command and replies immediately after processing. The problem is I have to turn my RS-485 chip into receive mode immediately after sending the command in order to receive the reply of the device. But because my write function of the UART is a non-blocking IO operation I have no way of knowing when to turn my RS-485 chip into receive mode.
How can I do a blocking write operation into the UART that the function will not exit unless all of the bytes are actually sent over the serial line?
What is your hardware platform? I have solved that problem before (atmel AT91SAM9260) by configuring the hardware to automatically set the RTS signal. That is your best bet unless you modify the serial drivers in the kernel (and sometimes not even doing that you can do it)

Simulate a USB Device for Automation

I have to simulate a USB Device for automation and testing purposes (in Linux). Original driver/application for this device uses “libusb” to communicate with it.
I don’t have much experience in Linux and Simulation, after some searching I have understood that I need to write a kernel level driver and an application in user-space to simulate that device. Is this right? If Yes, How can this be done?
Thanks in Advance.
Finally implemented it by modifying "libusb", modified it to send and receive usb transfers from message queue instead of usbfs. Programmed my simulator to create libsub type transfers and send/receive them using message queues as well.
Simulator now interprets the incoming transfers and sends it to a command parser, which sends request/message to automation system using sockets in a specific format. Automation system sends it's instruction by sending to command parser using socket. This socket invokes method specific to each request in simulator, Now simulator forms an appropriate transfer structure and passes to device plugin (via libusb) through message queue.
I think what you're looking for would be called a virtual USB device. Currently there is nothing in standard Kernel.Some virtual machine provides USB emulation.e.g. KVM provides USB emulation. There is framework gadget in which might look for your solution.
Or find something in Linux USB project
Thanks,
Abhijeet
The usb-vhci project could be of use if you want the device to be presented to the kernel in the same way as real hardware.

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