works, but license issues due to bcm2835 lib

pyserialext/Makefile

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+CFLAGS=-I/opt/bcm2835/include
+
+writec.so:	writec.o /opt/bcm2835/lib/libbcm2835.a
+	$(LD) -shared -o $@ $^
+
+writec.o:	writec.c
+
+.c.o:
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<
+
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	-rm -f *.so *.o

pyserialext/RS485Ext.py

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+import serial.rs485
+import serial.serialutil
+import ctypes
+
+
+class RS485Ext(serial.rs485.RS485):
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super(RS485Ext, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+        self.writec = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary('writec.so')
+        fd = self.fileno()
+        r = self.writec.set_rs485_mode(fd)
+
+    def write(self, b):
+        d = serial.serialutil.to_bytes(b)
+        l = len(d)
+        fd = self.fileno()
+        r = self.writec.writec(fd, d, l)
+        return r
+

pyserialext/writec.c

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+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <termios.h>
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <linux/serial.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <bcm2835.h>
+
+
+const uint8_t DE_PIN = RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_11;
+
+int set_rs485_mode(int fd) {
+  bcm2835_init();
+  bcm2835_gpio_fsel(DE_PIN, BCM2835_GPIO_FSEL_OUTP);
+  bcm2835_gpio_write(DE_PIN, LOW);
+}
+
+ssize_t writec(int fd, char *buf, size_t count) {
+  bcm2835_gpio_write(DE_PIN, LOW);
+  ssize_t r = write(fd, buf, count);
+  uint8_t lsr;
+  do {
+    int r = ioctl(fd, TIOCSERGETLSR, &lsr);
+  } while (!(lsr & TIOCSER_TEMT));
+  bcm2835_gpio_write(DE_PIN, HIGH);
+
+  return r;
+}
+