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libserial rename The version that was previously named libserial-newlnx is now libserial-linux, and the version that was previosly named libserial-orig is now libserial-posix. This new naming is more in line with the objective reality of the difference, moving away from naming based on our project history.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:54:31 +0000
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1 The library built in this directory is a host side library, not for the target.
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2 This library implements some functions for handling packet exchanges with GPF,
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3 and it will be linked by some of the programs in the rvinterf suite.
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5 It needs to be noted that the RVTMUX channel belonging to GPF was named
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6 RVT_L23_HEADER by TI, and as a result, I thought that these packets related
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7 specifically to the higher layers of the protocol stack. But now we know that
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8 hierarchically speaking, GPF sits *below* L1, not above, and GPF packets should
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9 not be automatically associated with G23. This realization was made fairly
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10 late, thus "g23" appears in a bunch of function names, and in the name of this
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11 library.