[fpc-pascal] How to use UART of ARM platforms (e.g. Raspberry Pi ) through free Pascal?

Michael Schnell mschnell at lumino.de
Thu Jul 4 11:49:27 CEST 2013


On 07/04/2013 11:16 AM, Dennis Poon wrote:
>  am afraid the bcm2835, the Soc of Raspberry Pi (the hardware I have 
> to use) does not provide this hardware support :-(
> It states that it does not even support interrupt. Polling is the only 
> way for events :-(

As already discussed here the RPI is strictly meant for educational use 
and not very suitable for embedded designs (that I think is the only 
kind of projects that use field-bus specifications such as RS-485).

So I recommend using a different board.

-Michael



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