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26.Dd December 26, 2020
27.Dt SCC 4
28.Os
29.\"
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm scc
32.Nd driver for Serial Communications Controllers (SCC) devices
33.\"
34.Sh SYNOPSIS
35.Cd "device scc"
36.Cd "device uart"
37.\"
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39The
40.Nm
41device driver provides support for various classes of SCCs.
42It is an umbrella driver that delegates control of each independent
43communication channel to subordinate drivers.
44These subordinate drivers, like
45.Xr uart 4 ,
46take care of the details of the communication itself.
47.\"
48.Sh HARDWARE
49The
50.Nm
51driver supports the following classes of SCCs:
52.Pp
53.Bl -bullet -compact
54.It
55QUICC: Freescale/NXP QUad Integrated Communications Controllers.
56.It
57Z8530: Zilog 8530 based serial communications controllers.
58.El
59.\"
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr puc 4 ,
62.Xr uart 4
63.\"
64.Sh HISTORY
65The
66.Nm
67device driver first appeared in
68.Fx 7.0 .
69.Sh AUTHORS
70The
71.Nm
72driver and this manual page were written by
73.An Marcel Moolenaar Aq Mt marcel@xcllnt.net .
74