NetBSD-5.0.2/share/man/man4/com.4

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.\"     from: @(#)dca.4	5.2 (Berkeley) 3/27/91
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.Dd June 1, 2007
.Dt COM 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm com
.Nd serial communications interface
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Cd "com0 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM1\&" irq 4
.Cd "com1 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM2\&" irq 3
.Cd "com* at acpi?"
.Cd "com* at cardbus?"
.Cd "com* at isapnp?"
.Cd "com* at mca? slot ?"
.Cd "com* at mhzc?"
.Cd "com* at ofisa?"
.Cd "com* at pcmcia?"
.Cd "com* at pcmcom?"
.Cd "com* at pnpbios? index ?"
.Cd "com* at puc? port ?"
.Cd "com* at xirc?"
.Cd options COM_HAYESP
.Cd options RND_COM
.Ss Arm32
.Cd "com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0"
.Cd "com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0"
.Ss HP 9000/300 and 400 Series
.Cd "com* at dio? scode ?"
.Cd "com* at frodo? offset ?"
.Ss IBM PowerPC 4xx
.Cd "com* at opb?"
.Ss SPARC
.Cd "com* at ebus?"
.Cd "com* at obio0"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
.Tn EIA
.Tn RS-232C
.Pf ( Tn CCITT
.Tn V.28 )
communications interfaces.  The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
.Pp
Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
50, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
19200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
of 115200.
.Pp
The ttyXX devices are traditional dial-in devices; the dtyXX devices are
used for dial-out.  (See
.Xr tty 4 . )
.Pp
The
.Va COM_HAYESP
kernel option adds support for the Hayes ESP serial board.
.Pp
With options RND_COM enabled, the
.Nm
driver can be used to collect entropy for the
.Xr rnd 4
entropy pool.  The entropy is generated from interrupt randomness.
.Ss Arm32 specific
If
.Dq flags 1
is specified, the
.Nm
driver will not set the MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART.  This is mainly for
use on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit is used to control
whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
.It Pa /dev/dty00
.It Pa /dev/dty01
.It Pa /dev/dty02
.It Pa /dev/tty00
.It Pa /dev/tty01
.It Pa /dev/tty02
.El
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
.Bl -diag
.It com%d: %d silo overflows
The input
.Dq silo
has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
with the code listed.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr acpi 4 ,
.Xr ast 4 ,
.Xr cardbus 4 ,
.Xr isa 4 ,
.Xr isapnp 4 ,
.Xr mca 4 ,
.Xr mhzc 4 ,
.Xr ofisa 4 ,
.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
.Xr puc 4 ,
.Xr rtfps 4 ,
.Xr tty 4 ,
.Xr xirc 4
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
.Ic dca
driver.
.Sh BUGS
Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
.Pp
The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
of the various serial ports are holdovers from
.Tn DOS .