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39.Dd April 20, 2001
40.Dt COM 4
41.Os
42.Sh NAME
43.Nm com
44.Nd
45serial communications interface
46.Sh SYNOPSIS
47.Cd "com0 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM1\&" irq 4
48.Cd "com1 at isa? port" \&"IO_COM2\&" irq 3
49.Cd "com* at cardbus?"
50.Cd "com* at isapnp?"
51.Cd "com* at mca? slot ?"
52.Cd "com* at mhzc?"
53.Cd "com* at ofisa?"
54.Cd "com* at pcmcia?"
55.Cd "com* at pcmcom?"
56.Cd "com* at pnpbios? index ?"
57.Cd "com* at puc? port ?"
58.Ss Arm32
59.Cd "com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0"
60.Cd "com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0"
61.Sh DESCRIPTION
62The
63.Nm
64driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
65.Tn EIA
66.Tn RS-232C
67.Pf ( Tn CCITT
68.Tn V.28 )
69communications interfaces.  The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
70buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
71.Pp
72Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
7350, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
7419200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
75of 115200.
76.Pp
77The ttyXX devices are traditional dialin devices; the dtyXX devices are
78used for dialout.  (See
79.Xr tty 4 . )
80.Ss Arm32 specific
81If
82.Dq flags 1
83is specified, the
84.Nm
85driver will not set the MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART.  This is mainly for
86use on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit is used to control
87whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
88.Sh FILES
89.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
90.It Pa /dev/dty00
91.It Pa /dev/dty01
92.It Pa /dev/dty02
93.It Pa /dev/tty00
94.It Pa /dev/tty01
95.It Pa /dev/tty02
96.El
97.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
98.Bl -diag
99.It com%d: %d silo overflows
100The input
101.Dq silo
102has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
103.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
104The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
105with the code listed.
106.El
107.Sh SEE ALSO
108.Xr ast 4 ,
109.Xr cardbus 4 ,
110.Xr isa 4 ,
111.Xr isapnp 4 ,
112.Xr mca 4 ,
113.Xr mhzc 4 ,
114.Xr ofisa 4 ,
115.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
116.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
117.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
118.Xr puc 4 ,
119.Xr rtfps 4 ,
120.Xr tty 4
121.Sh HISTORY
122The
123.Nm
124driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
125.Ic dca
126driver.
127.Sh BUGS
128Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
129.Pp
130The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
131of the various serial ports are holdovers from
132.Tn DOS .
133