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+ ISO7816 SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS
+
+1. INTRODUCTION
+
+ ISO/IEC7816 is a series of standards specifying integrated circuit cards (ICC)
+ also known as smart cards.
+
+2. HARDWARE-RELATED CONSIDERATIONS
+
+ Some CPUs/UARTs (e.g., Microchip AT91) contain a built-in mode capable of
+ handling communication with a smart card.
+
+ For these microcontrollers, the Linux driver should be made capable of
+ working in both modes, and proper ioctls (see later) should be made
+ available at user-level to allow switching from one mode to the other, and
+ vice versa.
+
+3. DATA STRUCTURES ALREADY AVAILABLE IN THE KERNEL
+
+ The Linux kernel provides the serial_iso7816 structure (see [1]) to handle
+ ISO7816 communications. This data structure is used to set and configure
+ ISO7816 parameters in ioctls.
+
+ Any driver for devices capable of working both as RS232 and ISO7816 should
+ implement the iso7816_config callback in the uart_port structure. The
+ serial_core calls iso7816_config to do the device specific part in response
+ to TIOCGISO7816 and TIOCSISO7816 ioctls (see below). The iso7816_config
+ callback receives a pointer to struct serial_iso7816.
+
+4. USAGE FROM USER-LEVEL
+
+ From user-level, ISO7816 configuration can be get/set using the previous
+ ioctls. For instance, to set ISO7816 you can use the following code:
+
+ #include <linux/serial.h>
+
+ /* Include definition for ISO7816 ioctls: TIOCSISO7816 and TIOCGISO7816 */
+ #include <sys/ioctl.h>
+
+ /* Open your specific device (e.g., /dev/mydevice): */
+ int fd = open ("/dev/mydevice", O_RDWR);
+ if (fd < 0) {
+ /* Error handling. See errno. */
+ }
+
+ struct serial_iso7816 iso7816conf;
+
+ /* Reserved fields as to be zeroed */
+ memset(&iso7816conf, 0, sizeof(iso7816conf));
+
+ /* Enable ISO7816 mode: */
+ iso7816conf.flags |= SER_ISO7816_ENABLED;
+
+ /* Select the protocol: */
+ /* T=0 */
+ iso7816conf.flags |= SER_ISO7816_T(0);
+ /* or T=1 */
+ iso7816conf.flags |= SER_ISO7816_T(1);
+
+ /* Set the guard time: */
+ iso7816conf.tg = 2;
+
+ /* Set the clock frequency*/
+ iso7816conf.clk = 3571200;
+
+ /* Set transmission factors: */
+ iso7816conf.sc_fi = 372;
+ iso7816conf.sc_di = 1;
+
+ if (ioctl(fd_usart, TIOCSISO7816, &iso7816conf) < 0) {
+ /* Error handling. See errno. */
+ }
+
+ /* Use read() and write() syscalls here... */
+
+ /* Close the device when finished: */
+ if (close (fd) < 0) {
+ /* Error handling. See errno. */
+ }
+
+5. REFERENCES
+
+ [1] include/uapi/linux/serial.h