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Philipp Oppermann
ad888bcb9b Merge pull request #1422 from imaspacecat/patch-1
Fix broken link in 04-testing
2025-08-01 14:30:26 +02:00
spacecat
7b9891b2b5 Fix broken link in 04-testing
the wikipedia link in "lots of UART models" wasn't working anymore, so I changed it to the newer link
2025-07-31 22:49:30 +00:00

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@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ A simple way to send the data is to use the [serial port], an old interface stan
The chips implementing a serial interface are called [UARTs]. There are [lots of UART models] on x86, but fortunately the only differences between them are some advanced features we don't need. The common UARTs today are all compatible with the [16550 UART], so we will use that model for our testing framework.
[UARTs]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver-transmitter
[lots of UART models]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver-transmitter#UART_models
[lots of UART models]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_asynchronous_receiver-transmitter#Models
[16550 UART]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550_UART
We will use the [`uart_16550`] crate to initialize the UART and send data over the serial port. To add it as a dependency, we update our `Cargo.toml` and `main.rs`: