Starting the char driver

To start your driver , you need to pick the appropriate character driver and run it with the device-specific options required by your application.

QNX provides a set of character drivers, classified as devc-* or devc-ser*, which include:

• devc-con (Only available for X86_64 target)

• devc-con-hid (Only available for X86_64 target)

• devc-pty

• devc-ser8250

• devc-serpci

• devc-serpl011

• devc-serusb

• devc-serusb_dcd

Each of these drivers have different set of options and specifications. To view these specifications, you can either utilize the use command or consult the documentation. The generic devc-* or devc-ser* options are available on top of each specific serial driver options.

Here is an example oh how to start the devc-serusb driver:

devc-serusb -d vid=0x045c,did=0x0195,busno=0,devno=2,module=generic,ign_remove