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They did recently add support for standard serial devices[1]. I'm not sure if this support extends to USB or what any such timeline looks like. [1] https://blo
by hermitdev 9y ago
They did recently add support for standard serial devices[1]. I'm not sure if this support extends to USB or what any such timeline looks like.
[1] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/14/serial-support-on-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/14/serial-suppo...
- revelation 9y agoIt does seem to work with USB serial devices, but only because those drivers on windows in turn emulate a serial port. So we have the USB driver pretending to be a serial port to Windows pretending to be a TTY to the Linux subsystem. It's a bit silly, but then I imagine TTY is a whole lot easier to emulate (even with all the cruft on that) than a USB chipset.
- hermitdev 9y agoTangential, but there was a recent HN article (I think) (that for the life of me I cannot find a link to) that referenced a Microsoft DSL for describing finite state machines that was principally developed to implement MS's USB driver. Closest link I could find (which is not the correct one) is: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/model-based-testing-with-specexplorer/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/model-based...
- cesarb 9y agoPerhaps it was this one from 13 days ago, about Prolog and Windows NT network configuration? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046420 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14046420
- hermitdev 9y agoNo, that wasn't it.
- comfydragon 9y agoP? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12673739 (Only took me about twenty minutes of assorted searches to find it too...)