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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.Cd options RND_COM
59.Ss Arm32
60.Cd "com0 at mainbus? base 0x00210fe0"
61.Cd "com1 at mainbus? base 0x00210be0"
62.Sh DESCRIPTION
63The
64.Nm
65driver provides support for NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based
66.Tn EIA
67.Tn RS-232C
68.Pf ( Tn CCITT
69.Tn V.28 )
70communications interfaces.  The NS8250 and NS16450 have single character
71buffers, and the NS16550 has a 16 character buffer.
72.Pp
73Input and output for each line may set to one of following baud rates;
7450, 75, 110, 134.5, 150, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800, 9600,
7519200, 38400, 57600, or 115200, or any other baud rate which is a factor
76of 115200.
77.Pp
78The ttyXX devices are traditional dialin devices; the dtyXX devices are
79used for dialout.  (See
80.Xr tty 4 . )
81.Pp
82With options RND_COM enabled, the
83.Nm
84driver can be used to collect entropy for the
85.Xr rnd 4
86entropy pool.  The entropy is generated from interrupt randomness.
87.Ss Arm32 specific
88If
89.Dq flags 1
90is specified, the
91.Nm
92driver will not set the MCR_IENABLE bit on the UART.  This is mainly for
93use on AST multiport boards, where the MCR_IENABLE bit is used to control
94whether or not the devices use a shared interrupt.
95.Sh FILES
96.Bl -tag -width Pa -compact
97.It Pa /dev/dty00
98.It Pa /dev/dty01
99.It Pa /dev/dty02
100.It Pa /dev/tty00
101.It Pa /dev/tty01
102.It Pa /dev/tty02
103.El
104.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
105.Bl -diag
106.It com%d: %d silo overflows
107The input
108.Dq silo
109has overflowed and incoming data has been lost.
110.It com%d: weird interrupt: iir=%x
111The device has generated an unexpected interrupt
112with the code listed.
113.El
114.Sh SEE ALSO
115.Xr ast 4 ,
116.Xr cardbus 4 ,
117.Xr isa 4 ,
118.Xr isapnp 4 ,
119.Xr mca 4 ,
120.Xr mhzc 4 ,
121.Xr ofisa 4 ,
122.Xr pcmcia 4 ,
123.Xr pcmcom 4 ,
124.Xr pnpbios 4 ,
125.Xr puc 4 ,
126.Xr rtfps 4 ,
127.Xr tty 4
128.Sh HISTORY
129The
130.Nm
131driver was originally derived from the HP9000/300
132.Ic dca
133driver.
134.Sh BUGS
135Data loss is possible on busy systems with unbuffered UARTs at high speed.
136.Pp
137The name of this driver and the constants which define the locations
138of the various serial ports are holdovers from
139.Tn DOS .
140