Gumstix serial device emulation

Once you have the kernel built for peripheral mode, getting the gumstix to emulate a serial port is pretty straight forward, just load the g_serial module. This will create a device called /dev/ttyGS0.

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modprobe g_serial
cat /dev/random > /dev/ttyGS0

I could get about 3.5 Kilobytes a second over the link.

You can also use g_multi to get serial and mass storage at the same time:

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modprobe g_multi file=/file_store_data

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