Hi Evan!
This is a first time post to the forum so please excuse any newbie language/etiquette.
Welcome to the RIOT community and no worries about any RIOT specific language or etiquette.
I'd like to test some uart-related code using native before flashing to a specific board. However it doesn't look like native cpu supports uart.
Am I missing something or is this the correct assessment?
Nope, you are correct. We just recently switched to periph/uart support for all boards, but since the native getchar/putchar implementation are mapped to the host's implementation of these functions there was no urgent need for a periph/uart implementation on native.
Is there any work being done on adding uart emulation to native? Is this an issue already being tracked (i tried to check but didn't see anything)
I guess you're right here, too: there is indeed no issue for this. I'll open one. Do you have interest in working on this by any chance?
Cheers, Oleg