The rt_com module provides a standard serial port driver for Real-Time Linux. It defines a API to access the generic PC-architecture serial ports from Real-Time space. rt_com works with NMT RT-Linux as well as RTAI. This talk gives an outline of the programming interface as well as of the internal structure of the driver. Additionally some application examples are given.

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