feat: Initial commit

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[Copilot]

Pull Request Overview

Initial commit introducing the SerialConnection module, tests, documentation scaffolding, and CI/CD setup.

• Implement core SerialConnection class with send, read, timed-read, and background-reading features.
• Add unit tests for basic reading and context-manager behavior.
• Establish Sphinx documentation, example script, and GitHub Actions workflows for build, test, and release.

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 26 out of 29 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
mfd_serial/serial.py	Core SerialConnection implementation
tests/unit/test_serial/test_serial.py	Unit tests covering read and context manager
README.md	Usage instructions and examples
sphinx-doc/index.rst	Documentation entry points
.github/workflows/build_upload_whl.yml	CI workflow for building and publishing wheel

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (3)

README.md:21

• Method name in code is send, not write. Update the docs to call serial.send('Text to send').

serial.write('Text to send')

README.md:41

• The class is named SerialConnection, not SerialDriver. Update the text for consistency.

SerialDriver can be used as context manager:  

mfd_serial/serial.py:45

• The send method is not covered by any unit tests. Consider adding a test that mocks the underlying serial port and verifies that write is called with the correctly encoded message.

    def send(self, msg: str) -> None:

[mfd-intel-bot]

We don't publish DEVs .whl.
To build .whl, run 'pip install git+https://github.com/intel/mfd-serial@first_release'

[mfd-intel-bot]

We don't publish DEVs .whl.
To build .whl, run 'pip install git+https://github.com/intel/mfd-serial@first_release'