A serial driver should be installed on Windows 7 only #1334
Conversation
LDong-Arm requested review from JoeTheGuitarist, MarceloSalazar, iriark01 and thegecko | The wording is "Windows 7" rather than "earlier than Windows 8" (which may cause confusion - is it inclusive of 8?) or "Windows 7 or earlier" (I don't think we support Vista, etc.), does it sound okay? |
| I assume we don't want to actively advertise the need of the driver but keep the content as it's searchable. So maybe references from lora, dap and possibly UnbufferedSerial/BufferedSerial could be removed. Note most mbed-os-example-*** apps use the serial port but we're not advertising the need for the driver (I don't think we should). |
| @MarceloSalazar Completely agree. I just removed links to the serial driver doc from pages other than intro and serial communication which are directly relevant. |
MarceloSalazar left a comment
MarceloSalazar left a comment There was a problem hiding this comment.
Looks good - thanks!
| The Arm Mbed microcontroller on your board can communicate with a host PC over the same USB cable that you use for programming. | ||
| | ||
| <span class="tips">If you're working on Windows earlier than Windows 10, you might need to [install a serial driver](../program-setup/windows-serial-driver.html).</span> | ||
| <span class="tips">If you're working on Windows 7, you might need to [install a serial driver](../program-setup/windows-serial-driver.html).</span> |
There was a problem hiding this comment.
So what about Windows 8? Does that work?
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Yes, it works on Windows 8.
There was a problem hiding this comment.
To clarify, it shouldn't be used on Windows 8 either
There was a problem hiding this comment.
Sorry by "works" I meant no driver needed
Co-authored-by: Irit Arkin <irit.arkin@arm.com>
* That images has been broken for ages * Adding AWS - but not to 6.0 yet because it 404s * A serial driver should be installed on Windows 7 only (#1334) * A serial driver should be installed on Windows 7 only * Remove links to serial driver from feature-related pages * Apply suggestions from code review Co-authored-by: Irit Arkin <irit.arkin@arm.com> Co-authored-by: Irit Arkin <irit.arkin@arm.com> * That doesn't work yet Co-authored-by: Lingkai Dong <lingkai.dong@arm.com>
Fixes #1332
This PR